Hizbollah guerrillas who seized three Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border in October were probably disguised as United Nations peacekeepers and had U.N. equipment, an Israeli security source said on Friday. Full Story

Two Spanish businessmen were kidnapped on Thursday outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi and their commandeered car was later found near the republic&#039s border with Russia&#039s separatist Chechnya region, officials said. Full Story

Rebels unleashed a score of hit-and-run attacks against Russian checkpoints and convoys over the previous 24 hours, killing 13 soldiers, a Chechen government official said Friday. Full Story

The militant Islamic movement Hamas urged Palestinians on Friday to escalate their uprising against Israel during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Full Story

Two people were killed and 11 wounded in separate incidents in the troubled Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, the fourth day of a cease-fire ordered by New Delhi. Full Story

An Israeli security source said on Friday Israel might attack Syrian troops in Lebanon if Damascus did not halt operations against Israeli soldiers by Iranian-backed Hizbollah guerrillas. Full Story

The death toll from a massacre by separatist guerrillas in India&#039s northeastern state of Assam rose to 18 as four victims succumbed to their injuries. Full Story

The U.S. State Department announced Wednesday it had reached an agreement with the Yemeni government on coordinating the investigation into the Oct. 12 bombing attack on the USS Cole. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers warned Thursday that more UN sanctions against their country would add to the miseries of the common people as the Afghan currency tumbled to a new record low and food prices soared. Full Story

Two suspects in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people were ordered Thursday to remain in custody until another court appearance on Jan. 31. Full Story

The Clinton administration will keep talking to the Taliban militia but is now looking for U.N. help in getting its hands on suspected terrorist kingpin Osama bin Laden. Full Story

The Chair of the Association of Generals and Flag Officers yesterday warned that any verdict by the Senate in the impeachment trial of President Estrada might not resolve the political crisis gripping the country. Full Story

A gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed the mayor of a rural town in the heart of Colombia&#039s largest cocaine-producing region early on Wednesday, authorities said. Full Story

Police and soldiers mounted a large search operation Wednesday for the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent Colombian business leader, kidnapped near the Bogota university she attends. Full Story

The world community, including the United States, is woefully ill-prepared for a biological warfare or bioterrorist event, despite spending more than $1 billion in the past five years, according to participants at the second national symposium on the issue. Full Story

A 69-year-old Swede released on Thursday by Yemeni tribesmen after 18 days in captivity said he was well but had been terrified by his ordeal. Full Story

Suspected Maoist rebels seeking an end to Nepal&#039s constitutional monarchy have killed eleven policemen in the first major attack since peace efforts to end the conflict broke down, a government official said on Thursday. Full Story

The leader of the extremist leftwing Japanese Red Army was indicted on Thursday on charges of involvement in one of the group&#039s hostage-taking attacks, following her arrest earlier this month, Japanese media said. Full Story

Fifty people have been killed in fierce fighting after Muslims attacked Christian villagers in Indonesia&#039s ravaged Moluccas islands earlier this week, police said on Thursday. The bloody raid on the village of Kairatu on Tuesday shattered what has been a recent period of relative calm in the spice islands, where thousands have been killed in…

When his turn came to speak, Silvino Cruz clutched his face with his thick rancher&#039s hands. “Love of my life,” he choked out, “I&#039m waiting for you.” He stopped, blushed crimson and sobbed. Cruz, father, grandfather and husband, has not seen his wife or heard her voice for more than four years. On this night,…

A bomb-maker from the Islamic militant group Hamas who was killed in a mysterious explosion in the West Bank last week had made chemical weapons “capable of killing thousands of Israelis,” a Palestinian newspaper reported Tuesday. Full Story

Yemen had been among the group of Arab countries which not only opposed some of the major elements of the U.S. policy on West Asia but was also not unafraid to express its views. Full Story

The U.S. and Russia are planning a joint military strategy against Afghanistan in their pursuit of the exiled Saudi terrorist, Osama bin Laden, The Times reported today in an investigation quoting senior U.S. and Russian officials. An attack on Osama bin Laden&#039s suspected bases in Afghanistan might be imminent, the newspaper said though what form…

Indonesian police in the province of Irian Jaya have begun rounding up separatist leaders ahead of important celebrations at which the authorities fear there may be renewed declarations of independence. Full Story

At least eight people were killed when government forces clashed with a group of masked men who abducted the wife of a businessman in the southern Philippines, police said on Wednesday. The men, wearing ski masks, barged into the house of Marilyn Tiu in Alicia, Zamboanga del Sur province, late on Tuesday and dragged her…

An explosive device wrecked a car in Hong Kong on Wednesday and injured the driver but police said they had yet to determine what type of device was used. Full Story

International terrorist Carlos the Jackal has gone back to court — as a witness in the trial of a German accused of taking part in an attack on an OPEC conference 25 years ago. Full Story

Judges at the Lockerbie trial on Wednesday dismissed a motion to acquit one of the two Libyans accused of the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing. Full Story

A Cambodian court on Wednesday charged 38 people, including four U.S. citizens, with terrorism and forming an illegal armed group designed to overthrow the government, after a gun battle in Phnom Penh last week. Full Story

Many experts agree that the United States is likely to experience a terrorist attack using a weapon of mass destruction, probably within the next decade. But how prepared is America for a nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) attack on the homeland? Not very, according to a new study from the Cato Institute. Full Story

British police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with a stash of home-made bombs found in the Oxford area late in August. Police said that a 35-year-old man had been arrested and taken to a police station in Banbury, central England, for questioning. Full Story

Armed Afghan bandits killed an Iranian officer and captured eight others in clashes in the northeastern Khorasan province, Iranian television reported Monday. Full Story

Separatists in Kashmir attacked Indian forces Tuesday in violence that left 12 people dead and shattered the first day of a Ramadan cease-fire the government had hoped would bring the insurgents to the peace table, Indian officials said. The victims, including two civilians, were killed in a gunbattle and in the explosion of a land…

Most Pakistanis do not want their country to cooperate with the United States in catching terrorism-suspect Osama bin Laden, who has been hiding in neighboring Afghanistan since 1994. Full Story

The FBI urged Pakistan to help trace the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814, commandeered on its way to India from Nepal, last December, reported the Friday Times, an independent Pakistani weekly. Full Story

Tension ran high at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan Monday after Israeli commandos shot dead five Palestinians, despite new steps to calm the Palestinian territories and revive peace-making. Full Story

India put a cease-fire into effect in Kashmir late Tuesday night, ordering its soldiers not to fire on separatist guerrillas except as a last resort if attacked. Full Story

A child and a woman were killed and 24 wounded in three separate bomb blasts in Pakistan&#039s populous province of Punjab on Monday, police said. Full Story

British troops who killed 13 Irish nationalists in 1972 on “Bloody Sunday,&#039&#039 one of the most contentious episodes in Northern Ireland&#039s history, shot at what they believed were armed targets — but innocent people were killed, a lawyer for the soldiers said on Monday.Full Story

Gunmen killed a deputy commander of a military district in Chechnya and his former driver during a weekend attack in which a female soldier was kidnapped, a senior official said on Monday. Full Story

Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm on Monday about a roadside bomb set off inside Israeli-controlled territory near the Lebanese frontier or “blue line&#039&#039 demarcated by the United Nations. Full Story

A bomb blast in a park in an Istanbul slum injured two Turks, reports said, with another person treated for shock. Full Story

Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians in the West Bank, dealing a new blow to prospects of ending two months of violence at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Full Story

Emergence of Islamic fundamentalism has given a totally new twist to the security scenario in Assam with a large section of disgruntled Muslim population being lured by over a dozen militant groups, says Chief Minister P K Mahanta. Full Story

Lebanese Hizbollah fighters killed an Israeli soldier with a powerful roadside bomb on Sunday in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms border area, triggering Israeli artillery fire and air strikes. The soldier was killed and three others wounded by the explosion in the Shebaa Farms, a mountainous region on the Lebanese-Syrian borders occupied by Israel since the…

The Colombian army says eleven members of the rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have been killed in clashes with its troops. Full Story

Police launched a campaign on Monday warning the public of Christmas terror attacks by dissident Irish republicans, urging people to watch out for unattended bags and suspicious vehicle buyers. The Metropolitan Police placed newspaper adverts including one with the message: “Innocent bag or terrorist bomb? If you suspect it, report it.” Full Story

About 30 New People&#039s Army guerrillas ambushed a convoy of vehicles owned by a logging company in Surigao del Sur last Saturday, wounding four militiamen escorting the firm?s employees, the military said. Full Story

Four activists of People&#039s War Group (PWG) were killed by suspected CPI-ML (Liberation) men at Salarpur village in Bihar&#039s Jehanabad district last night, police said on Monday. Full Story

Lawyers for American terrorism victims accused the Clinton administration Wednesday of trying to limit damages the victims can collect under a law that lets the government pay part of court judgments they&#039ve won against Iran. Full Story

Britain and Ireland have asked the United States to place the Real IRA on a list of designated terrorist groups. Full Story

The two car bombs that blew up in Riyadh during the last week were similar and basic devices, according to Saudi authorities. Full Story

Hoopla thick as holiday traffic surrounds the new $1 billion international terminal at San Francisco International Airport. But hidden behind the towering architecture, cutting-edge art and high-end seismic reinforcements are $150 million in 3-D imaging equipment, alarms and bomb detection devices to prevent terrorist attacks like the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City…

Fresh fighting in the West Bank Monday after Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians dealt a new blow to prospects of ending two months of violence at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Full Story

Heavily armed gunmen kidnapped the manager of Korean car and truck manufacturer Hyundai late Saturday, as he rested up at a weekend country retreat outside the capital Bogota, authorities said. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban stopped several foreign aid workers from leaving Kabul on Sunday, saying they had not obtained necessary clearance from the government. Full Story

At least two people were killed in a car bombing Wednesday in the northern Israeli town of Hadera, the acting mayor said. Full Story

The attack on the USS Cole last month appears to have been orchestrated by terrorists with links to the truck bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, Clinton administration officials said yesterday. Full Story

A bomb exploded in the heart of the beleaguered Afghan capital early Wednesday, said members of the ruling Taliban militia. Full Story

The Israeli army said four Palestinians it killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday were activists in a militia of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#039s Fatah faction. Full Story