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The suicide attack which crippled the US destroyer Cole in a Yemeni harbour a month ago, killing 17 sailors, cost 10,000 dollars at most, a newspaper reported Sunday, quoting an Islamic radical. Full Story
An Israeli army commander accused the Palestinians Monday of seeking to turn their “guerrilla war” against Israel into a terrorist campaign. Full Story
Eleven Spanish police officers were injured, five seriously, when a bomb exploded today in the latest incident attributed to the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story
At least four bombs exploded in the suburbs of the Greek capital, Athens, on Sunday. The far-left group Revolutionary Nuclei claimed responsibility for the blasts, which targeted branches of the US bank Citibank, the UK bank Barclay's and the studio of a Greek-American sculptor. Full Story
Osama Bin Laden, the man most wanted by the United States, has denied any link with alleged Kuwaiti terrorists and said he is not planning any attacks on US forces in the region, a newspaper reported Monday. Full Story
Kuwaiti authorities have broken up a sabotage ring that had planned a bombing campaign against U.S. installations in the Gulf Arab state and its neighbors, government officials and sources said. Full Story
A Russian hijacker and his 58 hostages from a commandeered Russian passenger jet arrived in Moscow from Israel on Sunday night to end the 24-hour drama, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. Full Story
Britain's security services have foiled a plot by a dissident Irish republican guerrilla group to detonate a huge bomb in central London, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Full Story
The British government warned people Sunday to be wary of terrorist attacks by republican Northern Ireland paramilitary groups as Christmas approaches. Full Story
Last month's deadly USS Cole attack was masterminded by an Arab man who telephoned the bombers from the United Arab Emirates, a source close to the investigation said Sunday. Full Story
Some of the same terrorists thought to have attacked the USS Cole botched a similar attack 10 months ago against another ship in Yemen's Aden harbor, an intelligence official said. Full Story
Recent terrorist attacks in places like the Middle East and Yemen have sparked many students to ask: Why does terrorism occur, and what can I do to stop it? Full Story
Could terrorists attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction? Highly unlikely, say defense experts. So why is the Clinton administration spending billions to foil a most improbable threat? Full Story
When Bill Clinton leaves office in January, he can claim credit for having done more than any other president to ensure that the United States is prepared to counter the threat of terrorism. Overall spending on preparedness and response measures nearly doubled, and terrorism was elevated to the top of the list of security threats…
Kuwaiti terror suspects in custody here had planned to attack a U.S. Army camp as well as residences and vehicles of Western military officers, Al-Watan newspaper reported Friday. Full Story
Germany's upper house of parliament has backed a ban against the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), warning that the fringe movement posed a danger to the nation. Full Story
The homes of a journalist and a policeman were the targets of bombing attempts in Spain's Basque region on Friday after police arrested four people suspected of links to the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story
Edi Rama, colorful newly-elected mayor of the Albanian capital Tirana, escaped unhurt after a sniper shot twice at the window of his apartment late on Thursday, police said on Friday. Full Story
Terrorists tried, but failed, to attack another U.S. warship in Yemen some 10 months before the October 12 attack on the USS Cole, U.S. officials told CNN. Full Story
The United States said Thursday it was seeking details from authorities in Kuwait about the arrests of four people alleged to have been plotting terrorist attacks in the Gulf. Full Story
Two hundred thousand Germans marched in Berlin Thursday to show the world they oppose an upsurge in neo-Nazi violence that has shed a spotlight on racism and anti-Semitism in a nation still atoning for the Holocaust. Full Story
French police have arrested seven suspected members of a Spanish extreme left movement including the man believed to be its leader. Full Story
Four suspects in the deadly bombing of the USS Cole are believed to have fled Yemen shortly afterward, The Associated Press reported Thursday, citing a source close to the investigation. Full Story
An explosion, reportedly caused by a bomb, rocked a courthouse in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, briefly disrupting traffic and prompting police security checks, a monitoring group said Thursday. Full Story
A bomb exploded at the airport in the Laotian capital of Vientiane on Thursday, injuring at least three people and raising fears about security ahead of a visit at the weekend by Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Full Story
Kuwait has arrested a group of Arab suspects allegedly linked to Saudi Arabian dissident Osama bin Laden on charges of planning to attack several U.S. interests in the Gulf region, security sources were quoted as saying on Thursday. Full Story
U.S. officials say Yemen authorities are holding two suspects believed directly involved in the attack on the USS Cole, and at least one of the suspects is “key to the operation, and talking his head off,” NBC News reports. Full Story
Canadian police remain upbeat about their probe into the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329, and the investigation is going according to plan, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Full Story
Canadian authorities plan to send more investigators to India as their probe into the 1985 Air India bombing continues, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Wednesday. Full Story
Scottish judges on Wednesday asked Syria to hand over a mysterious document that might help them figure out who blew up Pan Am Flight 103. Full Story
The appearance of a key prosecution witness at the Lockerbie trial was delayed again Wednesday when the judges said the defense should be allowed more information before his testimony was heard. Full Story
The 30-year reign of a woman dubbed the ''empress'' for her long leadership of one of the world's most notorious extremist groups ended on Wednesday with her capture outside a hotel in western Japan. Full Story
Following is a chronology of major incidents involving members of the Japanese Red Army. Chronology
A bomb ripped through the editorial offices of a Russian-language business magazine based in the eastern Latvian city of Daugavpils, the Baltic News Service reported Wednesday. Full Story
The Lockerbie trial was paralyzed Tuesday as the defense sought more time to investigate new evidence relating to Palestinian terrorists initially suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Full Story
A high-profile kidnap drama, staged by Colombia's right-wing paramilitary warlord to press for a role in peace talks between the government and Marxist rebels, ended peacefully on Tuesday with the release of six captive lawmakers, authorities said. Full Story
Senior Yemeni officials denied Tuesday accusations that government officials from their nation aided in the attack on the USS Cole. Published reports in the region said Yemeni government officials provided a car to the bombers in the October 12 attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors. Full Story
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's centre-left government decided to ask the country's highest court to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) for its suspected link to extremist violence, the government press office said. Full Story
Today we elect the next President of the United States. This person will inherit many of the same national security threats that bedeviled the Clinton Administration. However, the next President will also face a unique opportunity to craft a 21st Century policy to fight terrorism–a policy that recognizes the reality of terrorism in the context…
Israeli Navy announced Tuesday that preliminary investigation showed that a failed bombing attempt on an Israeli Navy vessel off the Gaza coast overnight was apparently a suicide bomb attack. Full Story
Yemeni officials have detained and questioned nine people in connection with the explosion that damaged the USS Cole, Yemeni sources told CNN on Tuesday. Full Story
The trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing resumes with new evidence allegedly linking the downing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland with a Palestinian group and the Balkans. Full Story
India's highest court on Tuesday squarely rejected a move by two southern states to release the comrades of a notorious forest bandit who has held a movie star captive for 100 days. Full Story
Spanish police arrested five suspected members of ETA on Tuesday in a government attempt to fight back against the Basque separatist group's bloodiest offensive in recent years. Full Story
Four men who police have linked to an ongoing bombing campaign in Cape Town appeared in court Monday to face charges including attempted murder. Full Story
A member of an ETA unit threatened a Spanish judge again on Monday, saying in a letter the judge would “pay” for his actions against the Basques, authorities said. Full Story
The tree-lined Villa de Paris plaza is a peaceful little oasis in hectic Madrid, its playground swings and slides attracting dozens of children and their parents each day. Full Story
Five years after he assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Jewish extremist Yigal Amir said Monday he would do it all over again. Full Story
Iraq has granted asylum to two Saudis who hijacked a London-bound Saudi plane last month and surrendered in Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said Monday. Full Story
A Swede linked to a Palestinian guerrilla group said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that he had been called to testify at the trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing. Full Story
Four men have been arrested and are being questioned about last month's bombing in Yemen that killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole, sources close to the investigation told The Associated Press on Monday. Full Story
A car bomb exploded Monday in Chechnya's second- largest city, narrowly missing a pro-Moscow official known for her strong anti-rebel stance, an official said. Full Story
Four men arrested over the past two days are being questioned about the fatal bombing of the USS Cole last month, sources close to the investigation said Monday. Full Story
At least three people were killed and five injured when a bomb exploded inside a media group's building in this troubled Pakistani port city, police and hospital sources said. Full Story
A Greek gunman arrested Saturday evening after hijacking a busload of Japanese tourists in southern Greece jumped to his death Sunday from a police building, Japanese embassy officials said. Full Story
Not a single republic of the Commonwealth of Independent States, including those in Central Asia, can cope, single-handed, with the threat of international terrorism, religious extremism and other new geopolitical challenges of the 21st century. Full Story
A home-made bomb exploded outside a tax office in Athens on Sunday causing serious damage, police said. Full Story
The Sri Lankan army claimed Saturday that 62 Tamil Tiger rebels had been killed in a week of aerial and naval attacks in the island's northeast. Full Story
A chronology of events in Saturday's hijacking of a tour bus. Chronology
Chanting “Death to America,” thousands of Iranians took to the streets outside the former US embassy here Friday to mark the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in the wake of the Islamic revolution. Full Story