The conflict in Macedonia entered a dangerous new phase Thursday as ethnic Albanian rebels launched urban terrorist attacks while their forces retreated under government artillery fire. Full Story

President George W Bush has ordered the US intelligence service, the CIA, to stop acting as a broker between Israel and the Palestinians. The decision is typical of the new administration&#039s hands-off approach to the Middle East peace process. Full Story

Excerpts of a speech by President Clinton about terrorism were found in the apartment of the fugitive co-defendant of an Algerian accused of smuggling explosives into the country, a witness testified Thursday. Full Story

The EntryScan3 seems innocent enough. It looks like an oversized airport metal detector that uses voice commands to direct passengers in and out of a security checkpoint. Full Story

Authorities imposed a curfew on a town in India&#039s restive Kashmir region on Friday after a protester was killed in a demonstration against burnings of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by Hindu hard-liners. Full Story

Spanish and French police on Friday arrested eight suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA on both sides of the border, including a man suspected of smuggling ETA&#039s arms between France and Spain. Full Story

Experts from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms testified yesterday that some of the chemical explosives found in the trunk of Ahmed Ressam&#039s car were so volatile they could have been detonated by static electricity. Full Story

Demonization by the West of the world&#039s most wanted terrorist has turned Osama bin Laden into a “cult figure among Muslims,” says Pakistan&#039s military ruler. Full Story

Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) today introduced legislation that would reorganize the federal government to better prepare for threats against the American homeland. Full Story

Now that he&#039s no longer the nation&#039s secretary of defense, William Cohen apparently feels free to leak government secrets. Full Story

Terrorist organizations are increasingly lurking on the Internet, looking for ways to penetrate government and private networks and using the Web to pass information, the government&#039s top cybercrime sleuth said Tuesday. Full Story

Silent in grief, but vocal in their anger, thousands of Spaniards have demonstrated at the latest killing in the Basque region, believed to be linked to seperatist group ETA. Full Story

A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel&#039s Bill O&#039Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people. Full Story

A new suspect in a global conspiracy to kill Americans abroad has been held secretly in New York City for more than four months since his arrest in Africa last fall, court records show. Full Story

Two ethnic Albanians were shot dead by police in Tetovo and one policeman was wounded in shooting not far from the Macedonian capital on Thursday as European powers tried to avert civil war. Full Story

Israeli troops and Palestinians fought one of the fiercest gun battles for days in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, despite Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#039s vow not to hold peace talks until violence ends. Full Story

Tamil Tigers fighting for independence in Sri Lanka said on Thursday they would extend a unilateral cease-fire for one more month but also threatened to break it if the government did not respond positively. Full Story

Unidentified assailants on Wednesday bombed the house of a judge slated to preside over the trial on Thursday of five suspects in the killing of Guatemalan human rights advocate Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998. Full Story

An optimistic and somewhat nervous Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen convicted of treason in Peru in 1996 but later granted a retrial, Tuesday denied charges of aiding Marxist rebels at the opening day of her public hearing. Full Story

A British engineer held hostage for four weeks in the Bangladeshi jungle yesterday told how he feared for his life. Tim Selby, 28, was snatched at gunpoint by rebels on February 16 in the south-east of Bangladesh, while working on a road surveying project for a Danish firm. Full Story

Sixteen terrorists and three soldiers have been killed in fighting between security forces and PKK militants in southeastern Turkey, a military official said on Tuesday. Full Story

Nine separatist militants have been killed in a clash with Indian police in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Police say it took place in the mountainous district of Poonch, about 200 kilometres from the state&#039s winter capital, Jammu, on Wednesday morning. Full Story

Government experts told jurors Tuesday that powders and liquids found in the car of an Algerian man accused in an alleged terrorist plot were explosives that could have detonated at any time. Full Story

An Egyptian Islamic militant group has denied involvement in a recent bomb attack in front of Zagreb city hall, saying it was a result of “internal conflicts in Croatia,” the local press reported Tuesday. Full Story

The FBI has uncovered a possible link between the main suspect in the Cole bombing and the No. 1 U.S. terror suspect, Osama bin Laden, according to a report appearing in this week&#039s Newsweek. Full Story

Gunfire hit two helicopters carrying Indonesia&#039s mines and energy minister and other officials in rebellious Aceh on Tuesday, less than a week before President Abdurrahman Wahid is due to visit the province. Full Story

Spanish police on Tuesday arrested five people for alleged links with ETA in the latest swoop on the armed Basque separatist group and its supporters, a government spokesman said. Full Story

Venezuela on Monday arrested a Colombian guerrilla wanted for a 1999 plane hijacking for a second time in just over a month, after his earlier release by Venezuelan police angered Colombia. Full Story

Hundreds of mourners buried on Monday the stewardess killed in the hijacking of a Russian plane as officials queried whether she may have died from a Saudi rescuer&#039s bullet rather than a hijacker&#039s knife. Full Story

Colombian police on Monday identified a German hotelier kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels. Confirming local television reports, a police spokesman told Reuters that Lothar Hintze was kidnapped by suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Friday in the central Colombian province of Tolima. Full Story

Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels have shifted their “international secretariat” out of London after being banned under new anti-terrorism laws in Britain, a press report here said Sunday. Full Story

Three faintly smiling faces stare out from tattered posters hung outside police stations across Japan. Few passers-by stop to look, though all know why police want the fugitives so badly. Full Story

The CIS Interparliamentary Assembly (IPA) is drawing up recommendations to lay a common legal foundation to combat international terrorism within the Commonwealth. They will be discussed during the April 19 meeting of the Assembly in St.Petersburg. This was disclosed here on Monday during a meeting of the delegation from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly with representatives…

The quiet hills of West Virginia appear to be a world away from terrorist attacks. But they&#039ll be the epicenter of response to domestic and international terrorism, be it a cloud of poison gas, a bomb or a virulent bug. Full Story

The most likely places for terrorism to suddently erupt are railroads, schools and even the Sheboygan County fairgrounds. Thats one of the listings in a revised anti-terrorism plan that focuses on the terms and abilities of various Sheboygan County agencies that take immediate action, Emergency Management Director Stacy Karbe told a committee Wednesday. The proposal…

Fifteen people, including 11 civilians, have died in renewed violence in Indonesia’s Aceh province as fears grow of an all-out war between the Government and separatist rebels. Full Story

State senators will debate this week whether the state&#039s chemical and agricultural industries need legal protection from eco-terrorists – a threat they acknowledge has never occurred in Arizona. Full Story

Unidentified gunmen have attacked a western Uganda town, killing 10 people and setting ablaze a number of vehicles, a military spokesman said Sunday. Full Story

Five police were wounded in a grenade attack Sunday in continued trouble between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia, ITAR-TASS said according to Abkhaz authorities. Full Story

In recent violence surrounding a nine-year rebel insurgency, 22 Islamic militants were killed by security forces, and a clash between two rebel groups claimed the lives of 20 others, news reports said Sunday. Full Story

The first week of Ahmed Ressam&#039s trial ended Friday with 47 witnesses having offered bits and pieces of a puzzle that federal prosecutors say will fit together to reveal the face of a terrorist. Full Story

Palestinian gunmen shot dead a Jewish settler on a West Bank road Monday, and the Israeli army immediately reimposed its blockade of the town of Bethlehem where the attackers were believed to have fled. Full Story

A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA killed a policeman in northern Spain late Saturday and police deactivated a second bomb on the country&#039s southeastern coast early Sunday. Full Story

Bangladeshi kidnappers released on Saturday three Europeans who had been held hostage for a month in a dense forest in the country&#039s southeast, security officials said. Full Story

A device planted between two buses at a garage in the Iraqi capital exploded early Friday, killing two people, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. Full Story

Three people were killed when Saudi commandos stormed a Russian airliner and freed more than 100 passengers on Friday from hijackers claiming to be Chechens who had threatened to blow up the plane. Full Story

When you walk into clouds of poisonous gas for a living, it helps to have a sense of humor–even a morbid one. That&#039s why fire department hazardous-materials specialists often call their police colleagues “blue canaries.” It&#039s a reference to the songbirds that old-time miners took with them underground as living–or dying–indicators of bad air in…

Seven people suspected of soliciting money from airport travelers to buy weapons for an anti-Iranian terror group have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Full Story

Canada&#039s passport security system was depicted yesterday as a shambles that allowed Ahmed Ressam to almost effortlessly get a Canadian passport using forged documents. Full Story

A Colombian hijack suspect is free to leave Venezuela because there are no local charges against him, Venezuela&#039s attorney general said Wednesday in comments sure to fan fierce debate here over the case. Full Story

An Egyptian tour guide early Thursday released four German tourists he had held for more than three days in a desperate bid to end a child custody dispute, police said. He then surrendered without incident. Full Story

A Russian airliner carrying 162 people was hijacked by two people claiming to be Chechens after leaving Istanbul on Thursday and at least one person was injured, Turkey&#039s transport minister said. Full Story

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) said on Wednesday one of its representatives had met Northern Ireland&#039s disarmament commission for talks. Full Story

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived in Libya on Wednesday for talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Palestinian officials said. Full Story

In a meeting with leaders of the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip yesterday, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer promised to maintain an open channel of communications and adopt a more active role in quelling terrorism. Full Story

It was Elizabeth Slater&#039s third day on the job. At 10 a.m., she was sitting in her office at one of her first official meetings. Forty minutes later, she was trapped there, buried in rubble up to her chest. Full Story

A man suspected of terrorism arrested with a carload of explosives shortly before New Year&#039s Day 2000 is either a careless militant who left behind a trail of incriminating evidence or a naive “lost soul” who was used by extremists bent on attacking the United States, a federal jury was told Tuesday. Full Story

U.S. civilian pilots are carrying out “risky&#039&#039 missions in Colombia&#039s drug war, flying fumigation planes low sometimes through guerrilla fire, the country&#039s defense minister says. But he insists U.S. troops here face minimal danger. Full Story

Federal prosecutors opened their case today against an Algerian man accused of transporting bomb-making equipment into the United States from Canada in the trunk of a rented car 15 months ago. Full Story

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip Wednesday while Palestinians in the West Bank took to the streets in mass demonstrations to protest against an Israeli blockade. Full Story