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President Clinton's last presidential visit to Northern Ireland ended Wednesday with a peace process still stalled and politicians feuding, yet citizens still longing for a violence-free future. He told the people of Belfast to “claim your moment'' for peace. Full Story
An explosion blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA left a city councilor critically injured Thursday in a small northeast Spanish town, news reports said.Full Story, Another Story
At least eight people were killed and 19 wounded Wednesday in one of three bomb attacks against Ecuador's main oil pipeline near the border with Colombia, the government said. Full Story
The elusive November 17 terrorist group mocked authorities for incompetence Tuesday and called the slaying of a British diplomat six months ago its most important act in 25 years of violence. Full Story
Six Yemeni suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole have been identified by sources close to the investigation, who say they share a background as fighters in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Full Story
Hizbollah and Israel both said Wednesday they did not expect to trade captives any time soon, dismissing media reports that the guerrilla group will swap four Israelis for Lebanese detainees within weeks. Full Story
Spanish television reported Wednesday that Spain's two major political parties agreed to a united front against repeated “terrorism and violence,” which the parties said was being waged by Basque separatists. Full Story
Three assailants armed with assault rifles killed a white farmer and seriously wounded his son in violence linked to Zimbabwe's disputed white-owned land, farmers' leaders said Wednesday. Full Story
A series of clashes between Algerian security forces and Islamic militants has killed 38 people in Algeria this week, including 24 rebels, local media said on Wednesday. Full Story
Saudi Arabia has arrested a U.S. citizen in connection with two bomb attacks which killed a British engineer and wounded four Britons in Riyadh last month, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday. Full Story
Two U.N. military observers kidnapped in Georgia's remote northwestern Kodori gorge were released on Wednesday, President Eduard Shevardnadze's spokesman said. Full Story
The United States has closed its embassy in Qatar to the public for security reasons, along with its consulates in Istanbul and the eastern Turkish city of Adana, a State Department official said on Tuesday. U.S. government officials said the closure came due to specific threats, but amid a general increase in activity associated with…
Timothy McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop all appeals of his conviction in the Oklahoma City bombing and to set a date for his execution. In a federal court filing made public Tuesday, McVeigh said he wanted to waive further review of his case by the courts. However, he reserved the right to seek…
Hundreds of Kookmin Bank employers held their chairman hostage Wednesday in an attempt to block the announcement of a planned merger that they fear would lead to layoffs. Full Story
A car bomb exploded near a mosque in a Chechen village, killing at least 21 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the breakaway republic in weeks. Full Story
Colombia's military, bracing for what could be one of its toughest battles yet, said on Tuesday it was prepared to retake a vast swath of territory ceded to Marxist rebels for peace talks two years ago. Full Story
The Greek group, November 17, has called the assassination of a British diplomat its “most important” operation in 25 years. Full Story
Angola's UNITA rebels have recaptured the key diamond centre of Caombo in northern Malange province, western sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Full Story
Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian policemen in a gun battle in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, described by residents as one of the fiercest clashes in 11 weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Full Story
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced Tuesday a second rebel raid in as many weeks in southern Guinea and dispatched an envoy to the region to see what could be done to help stabilize the situation. Full Story
Cyberterrorism is real, said the speakers at a conference here on Monday on confronting online terrorism and anti-Semitism, and it is no longer child's play. Full Story
Gunmen poised on a hill above Istanbul's main highway raked a passing police bus with automatic weapons fire Monday, killing at least two officers and wounding several others. Full Story
A bomb carried by a man detained for threatening his ex-wife exploded at a police station in southwestern China, killing the man, his ex-wife, an officer and a bystander, police said Tuesday. Full Story
The United Nations declared global war on transnational crime Tuesday but warned that mafia groups were outstripping crime-fighters in their use of technology and the global markets. Full Story
A Serbian regional court found nine men guilty of kidnapping a war crimes suspect in Serbia who was later handed over to NATO peacekeepers in Bosnia, Serbia's Beta news agency reported. Full Story
Negotiations to swap three Israeli soldiers and a reserve army colonel for 19 Arab captives have made significant progress with German mediation in contacts with Hizbollah guerrillas, security sources said on Monday. Full Story
A small Chechen village began burying its dead from a calculated bomb blast Sunday as Moscow tried to recover from another setback in the 14-month war against separatist rebels in the breakaway republic. Full Story
Two members of a U.N. observer mission were kidnapped Sunday in a breakaway province of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, officials said. Full Story
The Nation of Chad is war-torn, land-locked and destitute: Its average per capita income comes to just 55 cents daily. And yet, rather than help Chad fight illiteracy, high infant mortality rates or any of its other challenges, the international community may now have a duty to do the opposite. The government of President Idriss…
More than 30 cities across the country have joined with the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies to battle domestic terrorism, and Portland is right to join them. Full Story
A Muslim militant has confessed to planning terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in Jordan nearly a year ago, Jordanian government officials said Saturday. Full Story
Echoing warnings surrounding last year's Y2K celebrations, US officials said yesterday that they are bracing for the possibility of new attacks timed to another New Year's Eve. Full Story
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank Monday and an Arab boy died of wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire in an earlier incident, witnesses and hospital sources said. Full Story
Just days before President Clinton arrives in Northern Ireland, Britain's minister for the province has warned of possible terrorist attacks there and on the British mainland, a newspaper said. Full Story
A car bomb killed 16 children and teenagers and injured 20 others in a village in Russia's separatist Chechnya province on Saturday, a Kremlin official said. Full Story
Scores of people were killed in fighting this week between rebels and government troops in the Guinean border town of Gueckedou, officials and witnesses say. Full Story
One person was killed and nine injured, including five policemen, in a clash with suspected Maoist workers in Nepal, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place at Bharatpur, 87 miles south of Kathmandu, when an unidentified group attacked police officers searching for suspects who had manhandled a teacher to enforce a school strike,…
At least three people were killed in two nearly simultaneous explosions Friday in the southern Russian town of Pyatigorsk in the Stavropol region that neighbors separatist Chechnya, the emergencies ministry said, quoted by the Interfax news agency. Full Story
U.S. officials said Thursday there is evidence linking suspects in the October 12 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen with known operatives of accused terrorist Osama bin Laden's organization. Full Story
Colombian President Andres Pastrana, seeking to preserve a faltering peace process at an important moment for his U.S.-backed anti-drug strategy, has agreed to maintain for two more months a demilitarized zone in the southern Colombian jungle that has been the venue for meetings with leftist guerrillas. Full Story
The U.S.S. Cole. Khobar Towers. Osama bin Laden. All of these names evoke the frightening specter of a wave of international terrorism aimed at the U.S. And in the post-Cold War world, terrorism may be the gravest global threat facing America today, many experts intone. Indeed, homeland defense — protecting what was thought for decades…
Palestinian gunmen shot dead a Jewish settler in the West Bank Friday as Israeli forces braced for intensified clashes with Palestinians marking the anniversary of a first uprising against Israeli occupation. Full Story
In his first declaration as the prospective commander in chief, Texas Gov. George W. Bush warned terrorists today against exploiting the country's electoral uncertainty and said that as president he would “send a chilling signal to terrorists.” Full Story
Germany's lower house of parliament agreed to apply for a ban on the tiny far-right NPD party Friday, adding political weight to an emotional issue that the country's constitutional court will ultimately decide. Full Story
The Colombian government, in a bid to jump start stalled peace talks with Marxist rebels, said on Thursday it was nearing an agreement that would open the door to the first exchange of prisoners in the country's long-running war. Full Story
Russia and United States joined forces on Thursday in calling for an arms embargo and other sanctions to force Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to surrender Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story
Several Yemeni citizens suspected of helping to organize the suicide bombing of the USS Cole will be put on trial next month, the head of Yemen's government said yesterday. Prime Minister Abdel-Karim Ali Iryani said the defendants, who have not been named, are being detained and will be given a public trial on charges of…
At 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 12, 1992, a special Peruvian police undercover unit captured Abimael Guzman, leader of the fanatical Maoist guerrilla group known as Shining Path, in his hideout on a quiet, middle-class street in Lima. The fall of one of the 20th century's most elusive terrorists made headlines around the world and proved…
Six members of a Muslim fundamentalist cult were sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for their roles in an abortive attempt to overthrow Malaysia's government. Full Story
Despite flagging support for his peace efforts, President Andres Pastrana opted today to give the nation's largest rebel group an eight-week extension on the demilitarized zone that the government ceded to the rebels two years ago. Full Story
A fugitive charged with plotting terrorist attacks in the United States over the New Year's holidays last winter has been quietly arrested in Algeria, Clinton administration officials said yesterday. Full Story
Several thousand activists aiming to stop a European Union summit on Thursday ran riot in the streets around the conference center, setting fire to a bank and daubing storefronts with revolutionary slogans. Full Story
Indonesian police arrested nearly 100 people on Thursday after two policemen and a civil servant were killed by a pro-independence mob in the restive province of Irian Jaya, the official Antara news agency reported. Full Story
Stephen Sestanovich, the U.S. State Department's adviser on former Soviet republics, arrived in Uzbekistan Wednesday to hold talks with Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Komilov and other senior officials. Full Story
Five members of Algerian militant groups, including two leaders, were killed during clashes with Army forces security sources said Wednesday. Full Story
Interpol has issued a notice for the arrest of Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Pirabhakaran and two of his associates in connection with terrorist activities in Sri Lanka and India. Full Story
A Roman Catholic man was killed by Protestant gunmen in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, just days before President Clinton visits the British province in an attempt to help break a deadlock in the peace process. Full Story
Yemeni police have turned over to a prosecutor the names of six people suspected of complicity in the October 12 attack on the USS Cole, the prime minister said on Wednesday. Full Story
The Terrorism Research Center is pleased to provide this opportunity for our visitors to submit questions to author and adventurer Robert Young Pelton. Pelton is the author of “The World's Most Dangerous Places”, a New York Time's bestseller which is also considered one of the best open-source books detailing the world's conflict zones. In fact,…
An employee of the Israeli embassy in Jordan has been shot and wounded in the leg in an incident in the capital, Amman. It is the second attack on an Israeli in Amman in the past three weeks. Full Story
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