The U.S. military said Sunday they had found no evidence to support rumors a network of reinforced caves found in eastern Afghanistan had been used as a refuge for Osama bin Laden or other al Qaeda leaders. Full Story

District insurance regulators are investigating reports that businesses and properties around the White House are having trouble obtaining terrorism insurance or are paying steeply increased premiums for the coverage. Full Story

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday it was stepping up its oversight of security risks at the nation`s 103 nuclear power plants by developing contingency plans for emergencies and assessing potential terrorist threats. Full Story

Ex-FBI official Kallstrom directs an effort to guard against attacks. His colleagues say he`s up to the task. From his corner office in Manhattan, James Kallstrom can see the Chrysler Building with its gleaming steel spire and a thicket of other skyscrapers. The vista is a daily reminder of the task he faces. Full Story

The Irish Republican Army has followed up last year`s first step toward disarmament by putting another batch of its illegal weapons beyond use, Northern Ireland`s disarmament body said Monday. Full Story

With the safe recovery Monday of an Italian priest abducted by Muslim rebels in the Philippines six months ago, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo vowed to step up the fight against gangs who kidnap for ransom. Full Story

A bomb exploded Monday near a convoy carrying Afghanistan`s defense minister, killing four bystanders and injuring 16 others, a local official said. It was the latest incident to raise concern about the security in post-Taliban Afghanistan, after international peacekeepers found rockets aimed at their Kabul headquarters twice in as many days. Full Story

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed Monday to press ahead with a sweeping military offensive in the West Bank in direct defiance of U.S. demands for a withdrawal. Full Story

A car bomb early Sunday killed 11 people and wounded at least 70 others in an entertainment district near the Colombian capital of Bogota, police said. The blast occurred about 1 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT) in a car in central Villavicencio, a town 45 miles southeast of Bogota, police said. Police were having trouble identifying…

Suicide bombings have driven the conflict in the Mideast to new and dangerous levels. This is the story of two teens whose paths tragically intersected: an innocent Israeli and the Palestinian girl who became a walking weapon of terror. Full Story

Last fall FBI profilers announced that the person who sent deadly anthrax-laced letters to news organizations and Capitol Hill was probably a grudge-bearing, sociopathic male laboratory nerd with knowledge of the geography of Trenton, N.J. But a new scientific analysis sent to top government officials suggests the anthrax attacker may be a scientific whiz so…

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge soon will brief lawmakers on two House committees but will not testify as a Senate committee has insisted. Full Story

A Dallas-area stone worker who went out to shoot immigrants in revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States was sentenced to death Thursday for killing a gas station owner born in India. Full Story

The top-ranking al Qaeda leader who was shot three times trying to escape capture last week in Pakistan is in “fairly serious” condition, hindering close questioning of the highest-ranking suspected al Qaeda leader to be apprehended in the administration`s war on terrorism, a senior administration official said. Full Story

A suspected Islamic militant on Thursday denied putting up two of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Malaysia and belonging to a group accused of plotting attacks on Western targets in Singapore. Full Story

A federal judge in Detroit ruled Wednesday that a government policy to close deportation hearings of individuals targeted in the sweeping terrorism investigation launched after the Sept. 11 attacks is unconstitutional. Full Story

Homeland security director Tom Ridge served notice Wednesday that the federal government planned to set new safety standards to protect Americans from terrorism and would expect private industry to bear some of the cost. Full Story

A pivotal player in Al Qaeda`s multinational operations, Abu Zubaydah is one of the few people likely to know about impending terrorist plots against Americans. But as a hard-core militant trained in secrecy and ways to resist interrogation, he is also likely to do everything possible to thwart US investigators who urgently seek to get…

Al Qaeda Suspects Posed as Traders Before Capture in Pakistan. Full Story

Bin Laden deputy was guided by Kuchi tribes near Pakistani border, say Afghans. Full Story

A Singaporean member of an Islamic militant group linked to al-Qaida is suspected of planning to hijack a plane and crash it into the city-state`s international airport, Singapore`s prime minister said Friday. Full Story

Police detained five people for questioning after Molotov cocktails were hurled at a synagogue outside Paris, and three suspects in a similar attack in southern France confessed to the crime, officials said Friday. Full Story

An American-born prisoner captured in Afghanistan (news – web sites) among Taliban and al Qaeda fighters was being moved on Friday from a U.S. Navy (news – web sites) base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S. mainland, a U.S. official said. Full Story

The trial of British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl was adjourned on Friday shortly after starting, lawyers said. Full Story

Lebanon said on Friday it had arrested a group of Palestinians whom it blamed for launching rockets at Israeli targets from southern Lebanon in recent days. Full Story

The nation`s five largest pilots unions have asked President Bush to intercede personally to let pilots arm themselves aboard commercial jets. Full Story

Flight attendants are stepping up pressure to close what some call a back door to airport terrorism: ground-crew security. Full Story

A man described by authorities as the highest-ranking member of al-Qaida being held in the United States, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted murder and conspiracy in the near-fatal stabbing of a federal jail guard two years ago. Full Story

A jury in the United States has convicted a man who shot dead an Indian immigrant in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks. Full Story

Top financial companies are working to figure out how to use public and private consumer databases to catch possible terrorists and whether the information banks are up to the task. Full Story

Iraq planned clandestine attacks against American warships in the Persian Gulf in early 2001, according to an operative of Iranian nationality who says he was given the assignment by ranking members of Saddam Hussein`s inner circle. Full Story

Massive airport security systems, such as x-ray machines and baggage inspectors, seem to be getting all the attention. But a small, relatively simple device just might end up being the weapon of choice in the war against terrorism and airport crime. BlackBerry pagers are trickling into the hands of airport cops on both coasts, allowing…

The Transportation Department yesterday defended its decision to use different methods to inspect luggage for explosives at small airports and large hubs, saying its plan for smaller airports is not a “second-class system.” Full Story

A terminal at Tampa International Airport was evacuated for about three hours Tuesday when a passenger grabbed his carry-on luggage from a checkpoint and fled after a security official thought he saw a pistol in the bag. Full Story

A woman was arrested at Miami International Airport after she crashed her pickup truck through a security gate, hopped a 10-foot barbed wire fence into a restricted area and boarded a plane that was being cleaned in a hangar. Full Story

The Bush administration defended an impending citizenship requirement for airport baggage screeners in federal court yesterday, saying it will deter terrorist infiltration and promote loyalty in the workforce. Full Story

Al-Qaida terrorists fleeing Afghanistan have been allowed safe passage through Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday, criticizing Tehran for a second straight day as a supporter of global terrorists. Full Story

Prosecutors in the case of U.S. Taliban John Walker Lindh need not prove he killed Americans, but they must show he knowingly belonged to groups that had this deadly goal, a judge said on Monday. Full Story

A U.N. tribunal on Wednesday adjourned until September the trial of the man accused of masterminding the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, officials said. Full Story

Pakistani authorities arrested 23 men suspected of links to al-Qaida in late night raids in two cities as they continued to track down terrorists seeking refuge their nation, police said Thursday. Full Story

The trial of British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three alleged accomplices for the murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl will go ahead in a Pakistani jail on Friday, lawyers said. Full Story

Philippine troops killed three suspected Muslim guerrillas Wednesday in a clash at sea near a small southern island where U.S. surveillance equipment recently detected the presence of armed men, a military official said. Full Story

U.S. spy planes in the Philippines have for the first time tracked down the possible location of two American hostages held by Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden, a top Philippine general said on Thursday. Full Story

The Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday that a Guantanamo Bay detainee who claims U.S. citizenship was born in the United States, apparently the second American Taliban to have been captured in Afghanistan. Full Story

NASA broke its silence on Wednesday to reveal one of its worst-kept secrets — Thursday`s launch time for the space shuttle Atlantis, which has been kept under wraps as part of the U.S. space agency`s anti-terrorism plan. Full Story

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has raised the amount offered to relatives of suicide bombers from $10,000 per family to $25,000, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday. Full Story

An uproar over a Frontier Airlines jet that flew over the White House this week prompted disclosures on Wednesday that numerous planes have failed to follow post-Sept. 11 security procedures when operating near the nation`s capital, government officials said. Full Story

The State Department Tuesday unveiled a new “state-of-the-art” passport designed to prevent misuse of American passports by terrorists. Full Story

The US Operation Anaconda has squeezed many Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters out of Afghanistan, but some of those forces are simply joining a budding conflict nearby, in Iraq, local security officials warn. Full Story

Pakistan`s president said Tuesday he suspects Osama bin Laden may be dead. Speaking to reporters in the Afghan capital, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he had no conclusive information on bin Laden`s whereabouts since the United States launched attacks on Afghanistan on Oct. 7. Full Story

The State Department, citing a “deteriorating security situation,” urged Americans who live in Jerusalem to leave the city on Tuesday and encouraged dependents of American diplomats to return to the United States. Full Story

Philippine troops killed three Muslim guerrillas on Wednesday as they tried to flee the southern island of Basilan, where members of their group are holding two Americans and a Filipina hostage. Full Story

The capture of Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaida`s top surviving operational commander, is one of the most significant accomplishments in the U.S. war on terrorism, officials and experts said Monday. Full Story

According to a survey by market research firm In-Stat/MDR, increasing business spending on information and network security is mainly unrelated to the events of September 11, 2001. Instead, the survey found that fear of computer viruses and hackers drives investment in security products, such as firewalls or virtual private networks (VPN). Full Story

Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many companies reviewed their business continuity and recovery plans. Subsequently, there has been a movement away from centralizing technical and operational resources to distributed models. Full Story

As of tomorrow, Hungarian computer hackers will not be able to make illegal IT entries without being penalized. Full Story

The country`s first cyber law not only gives legal recognition to electronic evidence, it also provides the potential to cut costs. Full Story

The Clinton administration shut down a 1995 investigation of Islamic charities, concerned that a public probe would expose Saudi Arabia`s suspected ties to a global money-laundering operation that raised millions for anti-Israel terrorists, federal officials told The Washington Times. Full Story

The Defense Information Systems Agency last week announced plans to work with GRC International Inc. to develop a system to help detect, analyze and defend against cyberattacks across Defense Department networks. Full Story

A small biotechnology company in Eagan has developed a complex carbohydrate from the cell walls of baker`s yeast that appears to kill anthrax spores in the lungs of mice and may combat the deadly effects of radiation. Full Story