Tension is reported to be high in the central Somalian town of Baidoa which has been cut off from the rest of the country for at least three days. Full Story

Leaders of the Irish Republican Army have issued a New Year&#039s statement repeating a pledge to resolve the disarmament deadlock that has blocked progress in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, but stressing that the next steps to end the stalemate must come not from them but from Prime Minister Tony Blair. Full Story

A fierce exchange of fire broke out between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Serbian forces Tuesday inside the demilitarized buffer zone between Kosovo and southern Serbia, an AFP reporter at the scene saw. Full Story

Congolese rebels on Tuesday accused President Laurent Kabila&#039s army of bombing a southern lake port and killing two people after losing the region to the guerrillas. Full Story

Afghan Taliban troops clashed Tuesday with opposition fighters in the country&#039s north, near the Tajik border, Russian border guards reported. Full Story

Israeli airline El Al was the target of an explosion which slightly damaged a Zurich office building overnight but caused no injuries, police said on Wednesday. Full Story

A powerful explosion rocked an Istanbul police station Wednesday, police said. They said a bomber had made it inside a police station in a crowded commercial district of the city. There was no immediate confirmation of television reports that two policemen had been wounded. Full Story

Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Wednesday in the case against four Osama bin Laden associates charged with conspiring with the Saudi exile to attack American targets including two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Full Story

A judge reserved his ruling on Tuesday on a bail request for the two men charged with the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in history&#039s deadliest act of civilian aviation sabotage. Full Story

Sri Lanka&#039s army chief Lionel Balagalle has vowed to “eradicate terrorism” in the New Year as his troops consolidated their forces in areas newly captured from Tamil Tiger rebels, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday. Full Story

Israeli President Moshe Katsav has said Israel must concentrate all its efforts on ending terrorism that is “running rampant,” Israel Radio reported on Tuesday. Full Story

Four more defendants confessed behind closed doors Tuesday to involvement in the shock 1998 murders of Iranian dissidents which were blamed on “rogue” intelligence agents, state radio said. Full Story

A small bomb exploded Tuesday near the offices of the state-run news agency, the fifth such blast in 48 hours in Aden, security officials said. Full Story

Using the law as a scalpel, federal prosecutors hope to turn the trial of four men accused in the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa into an autopsy of a group blamed for plotting to kill Americans worldwide. Full Story

A Pentagon commission will recommend tightened security measures for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf after concluding that there were significant security lapses in the region before the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Full Story

A homemade bomb exploded on New Year&#039s Eve near a school in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, but there were no injuries, the military said Monday. Full Story

In a fresh bout of violence, two CPM and an equal number of RSS workers were injured when activists of both groups hurled bombs at each other in the volatile Panur region here on Monday night,the police said on Tuesday. Full Story

A bank executive who said she witnessed Philippine President Joseph Estrada sign a bank account under a false name said Tuesday she feared for her life after a spate of deadly bomb attacks in Manila. Full Story

Residents of Netanya, a coastal resort north of Tel Aviv were torn between shock and anger Monday following a car bomb explosion in the town centre which left 20 people injured, one seriously. Full Story

Muslim extremists threatened Tuesday to kill an American held hostage for four months after Philippine police insinuated that the victim had faked his abduction. Full Story

Suspected members of an anti-Roman Catholic cult hacked at worshipers with swords and set them on fire in an attack at a cathedral in St. Lucia that killed two people and injured dozens more. Full Story

Two bombs that went off an hour apart damaged churches in the central Asian country of Tajikistan, where a church bombing killed seven people in October, a law enforcement spokesman said Monday. Full Story

Three large explosions shook the Israeli coastal resort city of Netanya on Monday, injuring 20 people. Full Story

The government&#039s long-awaited prosecution of what it considers a global extremist network run by Islamic militant Osama bin Laden is scheduled to start Wednesday in New York. Jury selection will begin in the case of four alleged bin Laden followers who are accused of plotting to bomb two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998…

When a pair of suicide bombers crippled the destroyer USS Cole in a Yemeni port in mid-October, killing 17 American sailors, top U.S. counterterrorism officials had a fearful intuition: This is revenge for Albania. In mid-1998, the CIA, working with Albania&#039s intelligence service, had rolled up a terrorist cell guided by Saudi exile Osama bin…

A series of bombs exploded in the Philippine capital Manila Saturday killing at least 11 people, wounding scores and plunging the city of 12 million people into panic. Full Story

The leader of Lebanon&#039s Hezbollah militant group, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, called Friday on the Palestinians to continue resisting the Israeli occupation and escalating their Intifada (Uprising) to liberate all of occupied Palestine, promising them to secure the release of all Arab detainees held in Israeli jails in exchange forthree Israeli soldiers and a Mossad agent…

A man who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1971 surrendered to police Friday after arriving on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen. Full Story

Burundian rebels killed 21 people, among them a British woman, when they opened fire on a tourist bus and two other vehicles on the country&#039s main road, military officials said Friday. Full Story

War-ravaged Colombia is shaken by an average of 71 violent deaths and four “terrorist&#039&#039 attacks a day as its four-decade internal conflict intensifies, according to an official report on criminal activity in 2000. Full Story

The president of the peace commission of Colombia&#039s Congress and five other people were killed on Friday when their convoy was fired on in what police said bore the marks of an attack by the country&#039s biggest rebel group, the FARC. Full Story

A powerful bomb shattered the windows of a small hotel in Afghanistan&#039s capital and frightened nearby residents, but no injuries were reported, police said Friday. Full Story

A bail hearing was held Thursday in a British Columbia court for a man charged with involvement in the 1985 Air-India bombing. Full Story

German authorities arrested four suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden and seized weapons and explosives during a search of two Frankfurt apartments, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Full Story

A man who had been in a coma for 13 years after being seriously injured in one of Northern Ireland&#039s worst guerrilla bombings died Thursday, his wife said. Full Story

A federal court judge granted Thursday condemned Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh&#039s request to wave his right to additional appeals and expedite his execution. Full Story

Uncertainty plagued the quest for peace in the Middle East on Thursday after explosions in Gaza and Tel Aviv left at least two Israeli soldiers dead, according to Israeli military sources, and at least 15 other people injured. Full Story

A bomb blast Thursday in the Spanish seaside town of San Sebastian is considered by police to be an apparent message by the Basque separatist group ETA to mark the end of the year. Full Story

A Roman Catholic priest on his way to buy Christmas presents was shot and killed Thursday by a suspected Muslim rebel on this southern Philippine island, military officials said. Full Story

A group identifying itself as the Saladin Brigades claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb attack on a bus in Tel Aviv in which at least 14 people were hurt. Full Story

Oklahoma City bombing survivors and victims&#039 relatives hoped to confront Timothy McVeigh at a hearing where the convicted bomber planned to ask a federal judge to stop his appeals process and set an execution date before summer. Full Story

A bomb exploded on a bus in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Thursday, dealing another blow to peace hopes after a planned Israeli-Palestinian summit in Egypt was canceled. Full Story

A number of mysterious bomb blasts have unsettled this usually somnolent country, rocking a public monument, a luxury hotel, an outdoor market and the international airport. Rebels loyal to the deposed monarchy have stepped up their activities, crossing the border from Thailand to attack a customs post. And Hmong tribesmen, who once fought in a…

Taliban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar on Wednesday said “infidel powers” like the United States and Russia are trying to destroy Islam, as the nation celebrated Eid al-Fitr under the shadow of UN sanctions. Full Story

Bloodshed blamed on Muslim fundamentalists reached new heights during the holy month of Ramadan in Algeria, where more than 300 people died in a severe setback to the president&#039s reconciliation policy. Full Story

A firebomb exploded outside a bank in southern Athens early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, police said. Full Story

The Japanese doomsday cult Aum Supreme Truth, which launched a deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway train nearly six years ago, has recently been making its presence known on the Internet — which a U.S. expert on terrorism says is not unusual for terrorist or religious cult groups. Full Story

Indonesian security tightly guarded houses of worship Tuesday on the eve of Muslims to celebrate the end of Ramadan, two days after a series of explosions across the country during Christmas Eve rites that left at least 15 people dead. Full Story

Police sharpshooters on Tuesday killed an Islamic guerrilla and arrested another rebel and his wife for a daring attack on a military camp in the historic Red Fort last week, a top police officer said. Full Story

Israel has received information that three soldiers captured by Lebanese guerrillas in October are alive, Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said Tuesday. Full Story

Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said Pakistan must stop supporting guerrillas in Indian territory to show it is serious about peace moves in the troubled Himalayan region of Kashmir. Full Story

A car bomb that exploded today near army headquarters here killed at least eight people, including four Indian soldiers. A militant Kashmiri rebel organization, the Jamiat ul-Mujaheddin group, acknowledged responsibility. Full Story

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has been marked by an unprecedented number of peace moves — from the truces in Sri Lanka and Kashmir to the Indonesian president&#039s visit to troubled Aceh — yet it has still ended in bloodshed. Full Story

Police and Indonesia&#039s leading Islamic group, fearing revenge attacks after a wave of Christmas Eve church bombings that killed at least 13 people, Tuesday urged Muslims to tone down end-of-fasting celebrations. Full Story

One of the United States&#039 foremost anti-terrorist experts blasted U.S. anti-terrorism policies as a “failure” and said the arrest of alleged terrorist Ahmed Ressam near Seattle a year ago was “pure luck.” Full Story

Several successive explosions rocked Pakistan Monday, injuring at least 60 people, mostly shoppers busy buying gifts for the Muslim religious festival of Eid later this week. Full Story

At least ten people have died after bombs exploded in churches and mosques in Jakarta and five other Indonesian towns on Christmas eve, according to police and emergency workers. Full Story

President Clinton&#039s top terrorism adviser says the deadly bombing of the USS Cole appears to have originated in a plan by Osama bin Laden to hit U.S. targets worldwide in the first days of the millennium, causing hundreds of casualties. Full Story

Islamic militants headed by Osama bin Laden appear to have planned a spectacular three-country attack last January that would have included multiple bombings in Jordan and the United States and the sinking of a U.S. destroyer in Yemen, the Clinton administration&#039s chief of counterterrorism says. Full Story

When four men go on trial in 12 days in New York on charges they conspired with Osama bin Laden in the deadly bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa in 1998, one of the government&#039s central witnesses could be a former American Army sergeant who pleaded guilty in October to assisting in…