Four to five al Qaeda groups have operated in the United States for the last several years, but investigators have not yet found any connection between them and any of the 19 hijackers responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, according to government officials. Full Story

Britain&#039s Defense Ministry played down Sunday widespread reports in the British press that the country&#039s crack special forces were already inside Afghanistan. Full Story

U.S. President George W. Bush has ordered the immediate lifting of sanctions against India and Pakistan, imposed in 1998 after the two countries tested nuclear weapons. Full Story

A survey of 465 U.S. cities released on Saturday found that more than half of them have terrorism preparedness plans in place, many of them now under review in the wake of the deadly Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

U.S. government sources indicate to CNN that the unmanned spy plane downed by the Taliban on Saturday was providing intelligence for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Full Story

Authorities are seeking the cooperation of convicted Islamic terrorists in their investigation of the Sept. 11 hijackings and in their renewed effort to identify terrorist “sleeper cells” in the United States, law enforcement sources said Friday. Full Story

U.S. officials suspect that bin Laden conspirators may have been planning to disperse biological or chemical agents from cropdusting planes Full Story

Besides raising the reward for the capture of Osama bin Laden, senior State Department officials and other senior administration officials told CNN the State Department is looking to boost its counterterrorism budget. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban said on Saturday they had downed an unmanned spy plane and a helicopter in areas where opposition forces reported sweeping advances. Full Story

Rage Was Born in Egypt, Nurtured in Germany, Inflicted on U.S. Full Story

The FBI now believes suspected hijacker Abdul Aziz Alomari — one of the men officials believe was aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center — played a “key leadership role” in the September 11 terror attacks, law enforcement sources tell CNN. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban left its people in the dark about its plans on Saturday after its envoy to Pakistan threw down the gauntlet to Washington by refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden without evidence. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban said its forces shot down on Saturday a pilotless aircraft over Samangan province in the north, the Pakistani-based Afghan Islamic Press said quoting Taliban officials. Full Story

The United Arab Emirates cut diplomatic relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Saturday, the official Emirates News Agency reported. The move means that the Taliban is recognized as the Afghan government by only two nations, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Full Story

Saudi Arabia is resisting the United States&#039 request to use a new command center on a Saudi military base in any air war against terrorists, forcing Pentagon planners to consider alternatives that could delay a campaign for weeks, defense officials said yesterday. Full Story

Strategy: Military objective is the key factor, but weather, Muslim holidays, economy all figure in. Full Story

The US and British intelligence agencies are leading the search for Bin Laden, while the definition of terrorism is being drawn ever wider Full Story

Trial: Terrorism case illustrates difficulty of drawing tangible ties to Al Qaeda. Successful appeal could bolster U.S. credibility. Full Story

Understanding the Muslim world could help us overcome our alienation from each other Full Story

Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist Full Story

HAD FBI agents bothered to ask college lecturers in South Wales about the terrorist bomber they supposedly taught over a decade ago, then security chiefs would have realised how Osama bin Laden had carefully created a generation of impostors. Full Story

Diplomacy: The regime will not comply without evidence of his guilt, says the ambassador to Pakistan. The White House repeats that it will not negotiate. Full Story

JACK STRAW will travel to Tehran shortly in an attempt to enlist Iran’s co-operation for the looming conflict with Afghanistan. Full Story

AMERICA and Britain are to share the burden of the coming military action aimed at closing down the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden and other deadly groups in Afghanistan. Full Story

The business of assembling a coalition to battle terrorism has U.S. diplomats seeking pledges of support from longtime allies, former adversaries and estranged friends. Full Story

The United States has been rallying support in its efforts to build a world coalition to fight terrorism. Full Story

Talks between U.S. and Pakistani military officials are focusing on what facilities American forces would like to use to back up possible operations in Afghanistan, senior Bush administration officials say. Full Story

The battle to bring down Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization won&#039t be just about troops and guns. It will also be about money. Full Story

The U.S. Congress voted on Friday to approve a $15 billion rescue plan for the airline industry, which is reeling from last week&#039s attacks on American cities using hijacked airliners. Full Story

SOME of the West’s most professional and war-proven special forces units have begun the task of preparing the ground for covert military action in Afghanistan in the operation now codenamed Infinite Justice. Full Story

A federal judge denied bond Friday for three men arrested this week in connection with the investigation into the attacks. Full Story

Four people have been arrested in Britain in connection with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Full Story

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has told the BBC that there is enough evidence to bring Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden before an American court for crimes against humanity. Full Story

The President taps Pennsylvania’s Governor to head up the federal Office of Homeland Security. The move signals a serious, dedicated approach to combating terrorism Full Story

The primary source of information for the average Afghan is the radio, often a transistor made 30 years ago. The 20 transmitting towers of the Taliban&#039s Radio Shariat (meaning “Islamic law”) are spewing out hatred of America all the time. Full Story

U.S. authorities say they are casting a wider net in their search for suspects in the September 11 attacks, looking beyond suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization. Full Story

Western governments are responsible for many wrongs in the Muslim world, but that does not justify fascist fundamentalism Full Story

European leaders gathered for an emergency counter-terrorism summit in Brussels Friday are poised to tackle an urgent challenge: the prospect of a prolonged battle at home. Full Story

Reaction: Protests return to colleges, inspired by concerns as varied as the multiethnic student bodies. Full Story

U.S. could take its cue from other countries where the price of peace is exacted in civil liberties. Full Story

Small but growing numbers of college students, liberal groups and religious leaders are bucking strong public sentiment and urging the United States not to retaliate for last week&#039s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Full Story

Within the veiled and shadowy network of Osama bin Laden&#039s operation, information is likely communicated through both high- and low-tech means, using everything from a Web page to a whisper. Full Story

A military response that will not anger Muslims, that will not endanger the political balance in Pakistan, that will not have unpredictable consequences in Afghanistan, and that will not be exploited by the jihadists and other extreme Islamist groups, is a chimera. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban rejected an ultimatum from President Bush to surrender Osama bin Laden or face a massive military attack, driving down U.S. stock markets on Friday on fears of war. Full Story

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft warned Boston&#039s mayor and the Massachusetts governor of possible threats of an attack on the city or surrounding communities, officials told Reuters on Friday. Full Story

Jack Straw is to become the first UK foreign secretary to visit Iran since the 1979 revolution. Mr Straw&#039s trip is the latest in a hectic series of global diplomatic efforts since the terror attacks on the US 10 days ago. Full Story

Al Qaeda: “The Base” has been loosely drawn together by Bin Laden&#039s fervor, but its reach and sophistication confound U.S. intelligence. Full Story

A dark shadow has fallen over the citizens of the United States and Europe. As an Israeli who has lived his entire life in fear of terrorist attacks I can say quite simply: terror embitters life. It imposes a “military” mode of behaviour on a person, places him in an unending state of military stress.…

Tony Blair yesterday gave his most explicit hint yet that US-led military strikes in retaliation for the destruction of the World Trade Centre will be focused on Osama bin Laden&#039s terrorist training camps inside Afghanistan and will come within days. Full Story

The US government is pressing its European allies to agree to a military campaign to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and replace it with an interim administration under United Nations auspices. Full Story

America has agreed to lift sanctions imposed on Pakistan and India and to reschedule $600m (£410m) in bilateral debt with Islamabad, a senior western diplomat said today. Full Story

International public opinion opposes a massive U.S. military strike to retaliate for suicide attacks on America by hijacked aircraft, according to a Gallup poll in 31 countries whose results were released on Friday. Full Story

The world&#039s response to President Bush&#039s appeal to take his side in a new war on terror was loud but nowhere near as clear on Friday as his demand to choose between “us” and “the terrorists.” Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban on Friday rejected an ultimatum from President Bush to surrender Osama bin Laden and said a U.S. military strike on the country would be a “showdown of might”. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban, faced with a U.S. ultimatum to hand over Osama bin Laden, said on Friday that they would not do so without evidence that the Saudi militant was involved in attacks on U.S. targets. Full Story

AMERICA has reportedly won approval from two former Soviet Central Asian states to deploy combat aircraft from their bases north of Afghanistan. Full Story

TONY BLAIR enlisted the support of President Khatami of Iran yesterday in the widening international coalition being built to fight terrorism. Full Story

America&#039s top markets regulator said on Thursday that several U.S. agencies, led by the FBI, were investigating whether those behind last week&#039s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon tried to turn a grisly profit by playing the markets. Full Story

Two new names were put in the frame yesterday as possible masterminds for last week&#039s terrorists attacks in the US, joining the prime suspect, Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Israel&#039s Cabinet was to meet last night to discuss whether to go ahead with truce talks after Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank less than two days after Yasser Arafat announced a ceasefire. Full Story