Afghan factions haggled in Bonn on Monday over who should sit in a new interim government as Afghanistan&#039s former rulers threatened to mount a bloody last stand in besieged Kandahar. Full Story

Los Angeles County&#039s public transit system, the nation&#039s second largest network of trains and buses, has long been on guard and prepared for potential terrorist attacks, the system&#039s top officials testified Wednesday. Full Story

It&#039s a scenario even more horrific than the Sept. 11 attack that destroyed the World Trade Center: Terrorists launch a nuclear strike on an American city. If a crude nuclear bomb were set off, as many as 100,000 people would be killed instantly within a 3-mile radius of the blast. Thousands more would die slowly…

Federal health officials yesterday confirmed the presence of anthrax in samples Chilean authorities said they had taken from a letter from Florida. But the anthrax was not the strain that had killed five Americans and was most likely to have originated in Chile, officials said. Full Story

Planning for homeland protection takes time. You&#039ve got to figure out what to do. Then you&#039ve got to actually do it. While meetings proceed on the state level for Texas preparedness, and are very necessary, some things are obvious and just need to happen, like increased support for public health. Full Story

Palestinian security forces detained two senior political officials from the militant Islamic group Hamas on Sunday in what officials said was a campaign of arrests after a series of bombings in Israel which killed 25 people. Full Story

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was due home on Monday to weigh Israel&#039s response to a wave of Palestinian attacks, as Palestinian security forces rounded up militants across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story

Workers nearly finished fumigating the office of Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle on Sunday as part of an effort to clean up the deadly anthrax bacteria left by a contaminated letter opened in his office in October, U.S. Capitol Police said. Full Story

A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated nail-studded explosives on a bus full of Israelis in this port city Sunday, killing 15 people, just hours after Islamic militants set off deadly explosions in downtown Jerusalem. Full Story

A 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban and survived a bloody prison uprising near Mazar-i-Sharif last week has been taken into custody by U.S. special forces troops, Newsweek magazine said on its Web site on Sunday. Full Story

The United States on Thursday launched a program to lure foreigners into informing on terrorists in exchange for immigration help following the Sept. 11 attacks on America. Full Story

When terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center, they put in motion a chain of events that cost the Canadian economy $5 billion. Full Story

The blocking of income support paid to a Muslim cleric was a “manifestly disproportionate” response to European anti-terrorist measures, a court has heard. Full Story

Fauquier County Sheriff Joseph Higgs, Jr. and Emergency Services Coordinator Philip Myer briefed the Board of Supervisors at a work session recently on the state of the county&#039s emergency preparedness. “We are very prepared to meet and respond to any type of emergency,” said Higgs. “After Sept. 11 nothing seems the same anymore and people…

The United States has told Saudi, Russian, Chinese and other foreign airlines that their passengers arriving in this country will be put through extremely rigorous, lengthy searches, starting Thursday, if the airlines did not provide information needed to identify potential terrorists. Full Story

When a letter containing anthrax was mailed to a Senate office last month, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said antibiotics were not necessary for postal workers in the nation&#039s capital, and two of the workers died. But when a 94-year-old woman in Connecticut contracted a lethal case of anthrax last week, the…

American officials increasingly believe the anthrax attacks since September 11th were not carried out by people connected to al-Qaeda, but may have been the work of a lone American madman. To avert future attacks, though, perhaps they should look harder. Full Story

Since the September 11 attack by air pirates on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Justice Department has sought to enhance its ability to protect the United States from future strikes by creating the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. Full Story

Northern Alliance troops, along with U.S. and British special forces, fought Tuesday to snuff out a small pocket of resistance following a weekend uprising of Taliban prisoners. Full Story

A Turkish court sentenced three leftist militants to death today the first such judgment since Parliament passed a law lifting the death penalty for most crimes. The sentences, by a state security court in the western city of Izmir, were levied against members of an urban guerrilla group, Revolutionary People&#039s Liberation Party-Front, for trying to…

The Tamil Tigers yesterday declared their armed struggle was not aimed at creating a separate state, but demanded autonomy talks to end the decades-long bloodshed politically. It was the first time the group has said it was willing to negotiate something less than a separate state. The guerillas have been fighting for an independent Tamil…

Ten Indian army soldiers and nine militants have beeen killed in a gunbattle in J&K which entered a second day on Wednesday, a defence spokesman said. The fighting started late on Tuesday when militants separatists ambushed an army convoy which was on its way to flush out militants at Hill Kakka near Surankote, 540 kilometres…

Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar told the fundamentalist militia in a radio message Wednesday not to evacuate any areas still in their hands, Taliban sources at the Pakistani border said. Full Story

The U.S. Air Force will throw up a 40-mile no-fly zone around the space shuttle Endeavour on launch day and back that up with enough fire power to assure a “safe and secure&#039&#039 launch, a senior space wing officer said on Tuesday. Full Story

Federal criminal or immigration charges have been brought against more than 650 people since Sept. 11, including a number of “suspected terrorists&#039&#039 and suspected members of Osama bin Laden&#039s al Qaeda network, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcrof said on Tuesday. Full Story

The oil and gas industry is on especially high alert after a Federal Bureau of Investigation warning that Osama bin Laden may have ordered retaliatory strikes against North American natural gas facilities in event of his capture or death, industry sources said Monday. Full Story

On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars — but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war — but not at the center of a great…

The Foreign Affairs Department frantically called news organizations across the country Monday night warning of a Taliban plot to invite western journalists into Kandahar, then trap and use them as bargaining chips. Full Story

Nepal&#039s army launched an offensive for the first time against Maoist guerrillas as a fresh rebel attack was reported on Tuesday in the Himalayan kingdom. Full Story

Rebel soldiers loyal to the Central African Republic&#039s former army chief, Francois Bozize, are reported to have taken control of two towns on the country&#039s northern border with Chad, in a fresh outbreak of fighting. Full Story

Iraq rejected Tuesday a call by President Bush to let U.N. weapons inspectors back into the country to determine whether Iraq is building weapons of mass destruction. Full Story

Muslim gunmen fought pitched battles with Philippine troops on the outskirts of a major southern city on Tuesday and took scores of civilians hostage after at least 28 people were killed, officials said. Full Story

Quebec&#039s provincial government is changing identification requirements in an effort to make it harder for terrorists and others to obtain Canadian passports. The move comes two years after Ahmed Ressam, who held a passport he obtained with a phony Quebec baptismal certificate, was arrested at the U.S. border with a trunkload of explosives apparently intended…

Lawmakers critical of the Justice Department&#039s anti-terrorism campaign will hear directly from Attorney General John Ashcroft at Senate Judiciary Committee in early December. Full Story

Chet Autrey says he&#039s learned a lot about the “touchy situation” going on in the Middle East. He&#039s actually had conversations with Pakistani citizens living near their country&#039s border with Afghanistan. Full Story

The FBI is monitoring the investigation into the disappearance of a Harvard biologist because of his research into potentially lethal viruses, including Ebola. Full Story

The war on terrorism is to be extended to three new countries as soon as the campaign in Afghanistan is over. Targets linked to Osama Bin Laden in Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be at the top of the hit list, according to senior sources in London and Washington. Full Story

The government on Monday asked King Gyanendra to declare a state of emergency in Nepal after Maoist rebels killed at least 76 soldiers, policemen and officials in weekend attacks. Full Story

An Islamic militant blew himself up Monday near an Israeli checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip, as U.S. negotiators renewed efforts to end more than an year of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Full Story

An American missionary couple held hostage for six months by Philippine Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden were shown on local television on Monday, weeping and longing to be with their children. Full Story

The United States used heavily armed AC-130 gunships and MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters on Sunday to help Northern Alliance commanders crush a revolt by foreign Taliban prisoners at a mud-walled fort in northern Afghanistan, U.S. defense officials said. Full Story

U.S. Marines swooped into the Taliban&#039s backyard, setting up a southern Afghan bridgehead Monday to take the war on Osama bin Laden and his protectors to a crucial new phase. Full Story

The odds of dying in an automobile accident each year are about one in 7,000, yet we continue to drive. The odds of dying from heart disease in any given year are one in 400 and of dying from cancer one in 600, yet many of us fail to exercise or maintain a healthy diet.…

The leaders of Arab and other foreign fighters defending Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in his southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar may have fled to Pakistan, a former warlord said. Full Story

The Islamic militant group Hamas threatened bloody revenge Saturday after the leader of its military wing in the West Bank and two other activists were killed in a targeted Israeli missile attack. Full Story

Three students were being held on Sunday, charged with planning a deadly assault on their high school that they promised would be “bigger than Columbine,&#039&#039 police said. Full Story

Three-fifths of Americans say they would want a smallpox vaccination if it were widely available, according to an Associated Press poll that suggests continued nervousness about bioterrorism. Full Story

The United States is offering “substantial monetary rewards” as incentives to Afghans to rout Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda terrorists from caves and other suspected hiding places in Afghanistan, the top U.S. defense official said Monday. Full Story

For most Americans there is no more frightening threat than terrorists with nuclear weapons. Assuming Osama bin Laden does not already have them — the assumption most experts make — everything possible must be done to prevent him or other terrorists from obtaining them. Full Story

The attacks of September 11 made it abundantly clear that our previous organizations and methods of coping with terrorism were woefully inadequate. On Oct. 8, President Bush appointed Tom Ridge to coordinate the administration&#039s anti-terrorism efforts. Full Story

A right-wing militia announced Monday it was holding six mayors hostage to protest their attempts to reach grassroots peace agreements with leftist guerrillas in Colombia. Full Story

The government said Monday that a letter sent from Switzerland to Chile was tainted with anthrax. If confirmed, it would be the first case of the deadly bacteria in mail outside the United States since tainted letters raised a worldwide bioterrorism alarm in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story

A bomb exploded at a busy bus station in central Algiers on Tuesday, wounding 18 students, three of them seriously, police and hospital sources said. The incident raised fears of an upsurge of violence by Islamic rebels during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began last Friday. Full Story

On a hill overlooking this major Christian city in the southern Philippines, armed Muslim fighters massed on Tuesday around a white machine-gun mounted mosque. Full Story

Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, hours after Secretary of State Colin Powell announced a new U.S. peace mission to end nearly 14 months of violence. Full Story

‘- Insisting that “evil has no holy days,&#039&#039 the United States bombarded strongholds of the strict Muslim Taliban in Afghanistan Tuesday and vowed to catch Osama bin Laden. Full Story

An anthrax-contaminated letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and a second letter, believed tainted by anthrax, sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy were virtually identical and came from the same source, the FBI said on Monday. Full Story

Four journalists including two from Reuters were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy, taking to seven the number of foreign correspondents killed covering the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, witnesses said on Tuesday. Full Story

The Israeli army&#039s killing of two Palestinians and the shelling of an American school in the Gaza Strip triggered a new round of recriminations Monday, just before a long-awaited U.S. policy statement on the Middle East. Full Story

Anti-capitalism demonstrators, marching under banners that said “Smash the state&#039&#039, taunted police and attacked a McDonald&#039s restaurant in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Friday. Full Story