Three people were killed and 34 injured when three car bombs exploded in Russia&#039s rebel Chechnya region Tuesday, officials said. Full Story

Academics and security experts are warning how foot-and-mouth disease could be used as a weapon in future wars. Chemical warfare, cybercrime and environmental threats are all on the agenda at the Global Forum for Law Enforcement and National Security in Edinburgh. Full Story

Thanks to The Anti-Defamation League, law enforcement officials investigating hate groups now have a new weapon at their disposal – a Web site. ADL Director Abraham Foxman said the site will be used to identify and monitor extremist groups. “New technology has changed the business of fighting hate,” Foxman said. Full Story

Yemeni authorities foiled an apparent plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of San’a over the weekend, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday. About 10 suspected terrorists with ties to alleged terror kingpin Osama bin Laden were arrested, and a small quantity of explosives was seized, said the officials, who…

Federal investigators in the Northwest are facing increasingly sophisticated and violent eco-terrorists whose trail often vanishes at the building they&#039ve torched or the farm they&#039ve raided. Full Story

Congressman George Nethercutt, R-Wash., detailed his plans Wednesday for a full-out legal assault on so-called “eco-terrorism,” including a bill that would convey mandatory prison sentences for violence against environmental and life-sciences research. Full Story

A terrorist plot to plant a car bomb on the Plymouth-Santander ferry has been uncovered by Spanish police, according to the newspaper El Pais. Full Story

Israel tightened army blockades around some Palestinian cities on Tuesday as pressure mounted on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to abandon a cease-fire after the killings of two Jewish settlers. Full Story

Nine men believed to be affiliated with a group linked to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden have been arrested in Yemen for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. agents probing the bombing of a U.S. Navy ship, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Full Story

A powerful bomb exploded at a boarding-house in the Indonesian capital Jakarta around dawn on Tuesday, seriously wounding five people, and police later found several unexploded devices in the building. Full Story

Fifteen people who were abducted by Tajik gunmen ? including an American and two Germans ? have been released unharmed, news reports said Sunday. The gunmen demanded the release of four suspects held in the April 11 killing of Tajikistan?s deputy interior minister. Full Story

A newly elected nationalist politician and his family escaped injury today after his home was damaged in a pipe bomb blast. Full Story

A U.S. Embassy official was shot and injured Sunday by a Liberian security officer trying to stop a vehicle from crashing a security checkpoint, the Liberian government said in a statement. Full Story

Indian police said Sunday they had arrested another member of a group linked to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, which they suspect of planning to bomb the U.S. embassies in India and Bangladesh. Full Story

A leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas remained stranded at Amman airport for a fifth day Monday as Jordan refused to let him enter the country. Full Story

Bosnian Serb police clashed with nationalist rioters Monday, using tear gas and water cannon to beat back mobs trying again to disrupt a ceremony to mark the rebuilding of a medieval mosque. Full Story

Anti-government protesters attacked public buildings and looted shops in Algeria on Sunday in the latest flare-up of a widening popular uprising that is challenging the rule of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Full Story

Bangladesh police arrested three suspects Sunday after a bomb killed 22 people at a ruling Awami League meeting, state news agency BSS said. Full Story

A Cairo-bound airplane was held at John F. Kennedy International Airport for 10 hours after a threat to the flight was reported to authorities. Full Story

The presidents of China, Russia and four CentralAsian states were to begin two days of talks Thursday on regional securityissues such as Islamic militancy, drug running and organised crime. Full Story

President George Bush has smoothed his bumpy landing in Europe by holding out the possibility of sharing secrets from the global Echelon electronic eavesdropping system with countries such as Spain that are fighting terrorism at home. Full Story

New York State Gov. George Pataki on Thursday proposed a new bill to make terrorism a state crime punishable by death, saying state prosecutors needed the same tools their federal counterparts now have. Full Story

Two suspected separatist guerrillas attacked a police checkpoint in this Muslim-majority province with a hand grenade Thursday night. No casualties were reported in the incident, according to police. Full Story

Unidentified gunmen in Pakistan killed two people in an overnight sectarian attack on Shi&#039ite Muslims in the southern Punjab town of Multan, police said on Friday. Police and witnesses said three masked gunmen on motorcycles randomly shot people sitting outside a medical store owned by a Shi&#039ite activist in the Mumtazabad area of Multan on…

The United Nations has become involved in the case of a Scottish oil worker held captive by rebels in the Colombian jungle. Ally Taylor, from Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, was kidnapped by communist rebels in August 1999. Full Story

Canada will become more vulnerable to terrorist attack in the years to come, partly as the result of increased immigration, the country&#039s counter-intelligence service said in a report this week. Full Story

European Union leaders, besieged by rioting anarchists, sought to put the enlargement of their bloc to eastern Europe back on track on Friday after Ireland&#039s shock rejection of the Nice Treaty. Full Story

Israel and the Palestinians headed to security talks on Friday to gauge the first steps at implementing a U.S.-brokered cease-fire which has been marred by gunfire and mortar bombs. Full Story

Ethnic Albanian rebels extended a truce with Macedonian forces for 12 days on Friday as political leaders across the ethnic divide met to hammer out terms for ending a four-month guerrilla insurgency. Full Story

On the eve of his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, President Bush said Friday he wants to make Russia a “partner and an ally&#039&#039 but also to press his Russian counterpart on weapons proliferation. Full Story

Philippine officials said on Friday there was no sign that self-styled Muslim rebels holding American and Filipino hostages for the past three weeks had released any of their captives. Full Story

Authorities on Tuesday were investigating fires set in four luxury homes under construction inside an upscale gated community and searching for possible ties to a series of similar fires in the Phoenix area. Full Story

When it comes to tracking down alleged terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden, there seems no shortage of places to look. Is the Saudi exile in a base near the ruling Taliban regime&#039s stronghold of Kandahar? Or a cave hideout in the rugged central Afghan mountains? Or a farmhouse in the eastern part of the country?…

Thanks to Congress&#039 largesse, U.S. taxpayers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate victims of foreign terrorism. And the tab might soon soar. Full Story

We don’t want to sound alarmist but there’s a beast in our midst. The Manila-centric may not care because the Abu Sayyaf are out there, in the distant lands of Basilan and Sulu. The thinking is: They wouldn’t dare come to the city, where the terrain is strange, and the jungle unfriendly. Full Story

Timothy McVeigh was put to death Monday morning for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. This was an act of terrorism that if foreseen by authorities may not have taken the lives of 168 men, women and children. Full Story

A follower of fugitive terror suspect Osama bin Laden was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday after a jury couldn&#039t agree he deserved to die for the deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Full Story

A man suspected in a violent attack on the capital last year has been arrested, the government announced Wednesday as the trial of 32 people accused of attempting to topple the government entered its third day. Full Story

Accused spy Robert P. Hanssen gave secret U.S. software to his Russian handlers that later went to terrorist Osama bin Laden, allowing him to monitor U.S. efforts to track him down, federal law enforcement officials said. Full Story

Four bombs rocked the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring 12, as part of a strike protesting a water shortage paralyzing much of Pakistan&#039s southern Sindh province. Full Story

Indian security forces said on Thursday they had defused a bomb near Kashmir&#039s main government headquarters. Full Story

A bomb exploded in the Finance Ministry building in Sao Paulo, slightly wounding two people and damaging three floors, police said Wednesday. Full Story

In the nation&#039s capital, the legacy of Timothy McVeigh and his deadly truck bomb is an unusually quiet downtown, where stark concrete barriers keep traffic away from the White House. Full Story

Training to prevent terrorism in Southeast Missouri is the aim of a federal program that brought firefighters, police and others to Cape Girardeau on Tuesday. Full Story

Former Malaysian senator Sairin Karno, who has been brought in to negotiate with Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines, has already succeeded in winning freedom for hostages held by the group. Full Story

The militant Islamic organisation Hamas said on Wednesday it would not abide by Palestinian President Yasir Arafat&#039s acceptance of a U.S.-backed ceasefire and would continue its fight against Israel. Full Story

International security forces are working furiously to thwart a plot by Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden to assassinate President Bush and other world leaders at a major economic summit next month. Full Story

The execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh passed with somber memorials for the victims and muted public reactions except in cyberspace, where debate raged over the death penalty. Full Story

The Oklahoma City bombing was a real turning point, a wake-up call to law enforcement that some of America’s biggest enemies could be other Americans. So, six years later, the question is, could it happen all over again? Full Story

An explosive device went off Monday afternoon at the back door of a medical clinic where a doctor performed abortions. Full Story

European leaders condemned the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh as cruel and barbaric ahead of George W Bush&#039s first visit to the continent as president. Full Story

Afghan opposition forces on Tuesday captured a district in western Herat province after heavy overnight fighting with forces of the ruling Taliban, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported. Full Story

U.S. CIA Director George Tenet struggled on Tuesday to save an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Full Story

Indian forces ended their siege of a mosque in strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday after killing all six separatist guerrillas who had taken refuge there after a shootout, a military official said. Full Story

Nearly 60 people have been killed in Indonesia&#039s rebellious Aceh province in the past week in clashes mainly involving separatists and villagers, a local government official said Tuesday. Full Story

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who personally wrought destruction on his nation as no American before him, died Monday as he lived — unflinching and unrepentant. His death was reported by the Associated Press shortly after 8:15 a.m. ET. Full Story

Detectives arrested four suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents Saturday, seizing explosives and other bomb-making gear, police said. Full Story

Three Palestinian women were killed by Israeli tank shells in the Gaza Strip Saturday, as Israelis and Palestinians prepared their responses to a U.S. document seeking an end to eight months of violence. Full Story

The State Department on Saturday warned Americans against travel to Yemen, citing, among other incidents, the suicide bombing in Aden harbor last October that killed 17 sailors on the USS Cole warship. Full Story

The Macedonian army on Monday resumed heavy shelling of villages held by ethnic Albanian rebels, ignoring threats by insurgents to attack downtown Skopje if the onslaught did not cease. Full Story