Israel blanketed Jerusalem in heavy security and set tough limits on attendance at Muslim prayers on Friday after a car bombing revived Israeli fears of a wave of attacks by Islamic militants. Full Story

The Basque group ETA&#039s renewed offensive this year – the most violent since 1992 with 19 assassinations so far – for the first time has made terrorism the major concern for Spaniards, the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) revealed Thursday. Full Story

Hours after a car bomb killed two Israelis in downtown Jerusalem and two Palestinians died after street clashes in the West Bank, officials of both sides said they remained committed to a cease-fire agreement but issued conflicting statements about what that meant. Full Story

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan William Milam has informed the Taliban that Washington is ready for holding suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden&#039s trial in a third country, a Pakistani newspaper reported Friday. Full Story

The thorny issue of alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden dominated talks Thursday between a U.S. diplomat and a representative of the ruling militia of Afghanistan, where bin Laden lives, officials said. Full Story

As a car bomb killed two Israelis in central Jerusalem today, Israel and the Palestinians said they were still planning to implement a truce agreement aimed at ending the violence that has killed at least 179 people over the past five weeks. Full Story

Police say at least two people were killed Thursday when a bomb exploded at the Machane Yehuda market in central Jerusalem, just hours after Israel and the Palestinians agreed to steps aimed at ending more than a month of violence. Full Story

The separatist group ETA is forcing business owners in Spain&#039s Basque country to pay a “revolutionary tax”, the president of a group of Basque businessmen said Thursday. Full Story

A blast that appeared to have been caused by a bomb tore through an apartment in a Moscow suburb, killing a man, police said Thursday. Full Story

Two suspects in the U.S. Embassy bombings being held at a federal facility allegedly attacked a corrections officer, leaving him in critical condition. Full Story

A car bomb exploded in central Barcelona early on Thursday, injuring two people, in the second attack in Spain this week linked to the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

C-4, an advanced plastic explosive, was used in the attack on the USS Cole, according to Yemen&#039s prime minister and sources close to the U.S. investigation. Full Story

Mosques across Afghanistan and Pakistan prepare for special prayers coming Friday, the Muslim holiday when thousands gather in every neighborhood to seek help from God. “This Friday we will seek God&#039s help to protect our brother Osama bin Laden and others in Afghanistan from an American attack,” says Qari Khalilur Rahman who leads Friday prayers…

A notorious right-wing paramilitary leader said Wednesday that he was holding seven lawmakers hostage and would release them only if the government gets tougher in peace talks with leftist guerrillas. Full Story

The killing of a Protestant man, a bomb attack on a police station and new political squabbles put fresh pressure on Northern Ireland&#039s already strained peace process on Wednesday. Full Story

Iran&#039s parliament voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow courts to impose punitive damages on the United States for “terrorist” acts. The move comes after the U.S. government agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to victims of what Washington calls Iranian “state-sponsored terrorism”. Full Story

A bomb attack blamed by police on “republican terrorists,&#039&#039 internecine Protestant killings and political squabbling kept Northern Ireland&#039s peace process under pressure Wednesday. Full Story

A retired pilot has apparently been arrested by Jordanian police in connection with two bomb hoaxes that forced flights operated by Royal Jordanian Airlines to make emergency landings on Monday (30 October). Full Story

The U.S. and Yemeni governments are in the midst of “trying to hammer out a written agreement” on a broad range of issues relating to the investigation of the October 12 attack on the USS Cole, two administration sources told CNN. Full Story

Defense lawyers requested another delay in the Lockerbie bombing trial Tuesday to investigate new information that could reveal who manufactured and planted the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103. Full Story

Two bombs were thrown at a Northern Ireland police station early Wednesday, injuring one officer, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said. Full Story

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid Tuesday in outrage at the killing of three people in the bloodiest attack blamed on Basque separatists ETA since a truce ended last year. Full Story

This ran separately as a three-part series on Oct. 28. The British government has announced sweeping new powers to compel law firms, banks and financial institutions like credit card companies to help stop money laundering and financial transactions that could finance Northern Ireland terror groups. Full Story

The United States is close to convincing the U.N. Security Council to step up sanctions against Afghanistan&#039s Taliban faction until it hands over terrorist financier Osama bin Laden for trial in the United States, says the State Department&#039s counter-terrorism chief. Full Story

President Clinton and the State Department&#039s top terrorism official are urging Yemen to give U.S. investigators more access to witnesses, suspects and evidence in the bombing of the USS destroyer Cole in Aden harbor. Full Story

Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has been leading Spaniards in mourning a judge and his chauffeur killed in the bloodiest attack blamed on ETA since the Basque separatist group ended a truce last year. Full Story

U.S. forces and diplomatic personnel in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have been placed on their highest level of alert, raising to five the number of Persian Gulf countries covered by an order that means a terrorist attack is considered likely, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Full Story

Concerns about a possible terrorist threat in the Suez Canal have prompted a ban on U.S. Navy vessels using the waterway, a decision that will extend the USS Cole&#039s journey back to the United States. Full Story

The investigation of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen is focused on Osama bin Laden, but no evidence has yet been found directly linking him to the terrorist attack, Defense Secretary William Cohen said Monday. Full Story

Two Royal Jordanian planes were victims of bomb hoaxes and forced to make emergency landings late Monday, Transport Minister Saleh Rsheidat said Tuesday. Full Story

European Commission President Romano Prodi condemned on Tuesday the car bomb attack that killed a Spanish supreme court judge in Madrid and urged the Spanish people not to surrender to “terror and extortion.” Full Story

A 30-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of having planting an explosive device under a counter at Kazachy market in Nevinnomyssk on October 6 was faced with charges of terrorism under an article of the Russian Federation&#039s Criminal Code. Full Story

Neighbors of the two Arab strangers who came quietly in June to the cinder- block apartment at 9, Jabal al Sakhra, high above Aden&#039s harbor, now say there were quite a few things that made them stand out, even among the disparate group of people who have settled in the cascade of ramshackle homes that…

The Yemeni investigation into the bombing of the USS Cole is focusing on four men believed to be the main plotters and continuing to explore possible links to Muslim militants in Yemen, sources close to the investigation said Tuesday. Full Story

More than 15 years after the death of 329 people in history&#039s deadliest act of aviation sabotage, two suspected Sikh religious extremists appeared in court on Monday to face murder charges. Full Story

Defense lawyers in the Lockerbie case said on Tuesday they were investigating possible links between the 1988 bombing, a Palestinian group and the Balkans. Full Story

Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar Tuesday led outraged Spaniards in mourning for three people killed in the bloodiest attack blamed on ETA since the Basque separatist group ended a truce last year. Full Story

The car bombing which killed a Spanish supreme court judge and two aides in Madrid Monday brought the number of slayings attributed to Basque separatist group ETA this year to 19. Full Story

Spain&#039s political and union leaders called a huge anti-terrorism rally here after a massive car bomb, attributed to the armed separatist group ETA, killed a supreme court judge and two others Monday, regional authorities said. Full Story

Authorities deployed army units and appealed for calm in central Sri Lanka today as ethnic tension mounted following a mob killing of 25 former child guerrillas. Full Story

Seventeen days after the most modern destroyer in the U.S. fleet was attacked during a brief refueling stop, the USS Cole was towed out of Aden&#039s harbor today by Yemeni tugboats, the blackened crater on its port side visible to residents on nearby hillsides who cheered its departure. Full Story

Youths shouting “Sieg Heil&#039&#039 and racist insults tried to force their way into a Turkish family&#039s house in northwestern Germany, sparking a fight in which one of the family members was slightly injured, police said Monday. Full Story

The American embassy in Jakarta, which suspended some services last week after receiving an unspecified threat, will remain closed to the public until at least Tuesday, a spokesman said. Full Story

A car bomb blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA killed a Spanish Supreme Court judge, his driver and his bodyguard Monday in the bloodiest attack since the guerrillas called off their cease-fire last year. Full Story

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in the world&#039s deadliest act of civilian aviation sabotage, Canadian police said. Full Story

Yemen said Sunday that it had information on a second suspect involved in the blast on the USS Cole guided-missile destroyer, which killed 17 US sailors. Full Story

There was one small nugget of good news buried deep inside the tragedy of the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden. And it relates, ironically, to what may have been the deeper tragedy of an intelligence failure. Full Story

The boat speeding toward the USS Cole caught Seaman Raymond Mooney&#039s eye, interrupting his reveries in the sweltering heat. But the small craft slowed as it approached the Navy destroyer, and Mooney relaxed when the two men on board waved to him. A garbage scow, he thought, coming to carry away trash. Full Story

A judge rejected a guilty plea of a defendant in the U.S. embassy bombings case after the man said he was innocent but wanted to plead guilty to avoid the humiliation of a lengthy trial. Wadih El Hage is one of 17 people charged in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania,…

Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan wants the military to hand over power to a national government that would implement Islamic rule in the country. Full Story

The bombing of a U.S. warship at the southern Yemeni port of Aden has dealt a fresh blow to tourism in the poor Arab state, still trying to recover from the effects of kidnappings and killings of Western visitors. Full Story

Two persons were killed and 31 injured, two of them seriously, in a blast in the general compartment of the Bhatinda-Rewari passenger train near here on Thursday. Full Story

With the accused staring out of a video screen and a U.S. judge conducting the hearing, prosecutors and lawyers questioned Canadian witnesses Thursday about a plot to bomb U.S. targets during millennium celebrations. Full Story

Defense Secretary William Cohen and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are urging American military commanders in the Middle East and elsewhere to use the USS Cole bombing as an impetus for strengthening anti-terrorist protections for their troops. Full Story

Israel braced on Friday for the danger of more bomb attacks after heightened warnings that militant Palestinian Islamic groups were planning to unleash suicide bombers into Israeli cities. Full Story

International monitors who made a second inspection of IRA arms as part of the Northern Irish peace process said on Thursday the weapons had not been used since they were last examined in June. Full Story

Sudan rebels accused the government on Thursday of bombing a camp housing thousands of war-displaced civilians, in violation of a special truce agreed by both sides in their 17-year-old civil war. Full Story

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U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly picked up indications of a possible terrorist attack in the Persian Gulf in the days and weeks before the Oct. 12 bombing of the USS Cole, but the warnings were not always relayed to military commanders in the area, according to members of Congress investigating the incident. Full Story

Once again, the US government may soon face one of the most difficult security questions of the modern age: whether – and how – to retaliate for an act of terrorism. Full Story