An alleged Hamas terrorist-in-training was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday after he refused repeatedly to testify before a grand jury investigating the group&#039s activities in the United States. Full Story

One person was killed and 10 others injured when suspected Naga militants ambushed security personnel escorting 17 oil tankers at Karong in Manipur&#039s Senapati district today, official sources said here. Full Story

French have police detained a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA after 1.5 tonnes of explosives were stolen from a warehouse near Grenoble, the local prosecutor said on Thursday. The man was caught around 2:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) trying to drive through a police roadblock near the eastern French city. Full Story

Mobs attacked U.N. vehicles and a couple of buildings hours after the arrest of three men, allegedly connected with a possible assassination attempt on a prominent East Timor leader, officials said. Full Story

Suspected Islamic militants killed 10 people in Algeria over the past weekend, newspapers reported Wednesday. The violence comes on the eve of a key Muslim holiday. Full Story

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against a ban on support for organisations designated as terrorist by the US Government. Full Story

Indonesian police fired into a group of protesters on Thursday, wounding at least five, in the ravaged Borneo city of Palangkaraya just minutes after President Abdurrahman Wahid had left the area, witnesses said. Full Story

IRA guerrillas said they would reopen talks with Northern Ireland&#039s disarmament body on Thursday as the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland held talks in the province to try to bolster its shaky peace pact. Full Story

Terrified, the victims hid in the jungle. At long last the police came, announcing over loudspeakers that it was safe to come out. So some 300 Madurese—Muslims whose families had settled in Borneo over the last four decades—emerged from the bush. That was the worst mistake many of them would ever make. Full Story

Four policemen were wounded when a humanitarian convoy carrying aid into Chechnya came under rebel attack, Russian military officials in Grozny said Wednesday. Full Story

Troops killed two Pakistani terrorists belonging to the suicide squad of the Lashkar-e-Toiba as they attempted to storm an army camp at Jouria Wali Gali near Poonch early today. Full Story

All positive developments regarding release of the three European hostages have been jeopardised following “newspaper reports” about payment of ransom, Minister for CHT Affairs Kalparanjan Chakma said yesterday. Full Story

The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo shot and injured two gunmen at the border with Macedonia Wednesday, a spokesman said. Full Story

A second suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease on Dartmoor has put the national park on red alert, British farmers said on Tuesday. Full Story

Spanish police have arrested 15 suspected members of the Basque separatist group, ETA. Several hundred police officers took part in the raids on a number of cities in the Basque region of northern Spain and in neighbouring Navarre, overnight on Monday. Full Story

The Liberian government has said it is fighting to retake the northern border town of Voinjama from rebels. The defence minister, Daniel Chea, accused Guinea of backing the rebels and said the seizure of the town amounted to an overt declaration of war by Conakry. Full Story

Smashing images is as old as human hatred. Anyone inclined to priggishness about the Taliban&#039s mass execution of statues in Afghanistan need only visit the Lady Chapel at Ely cathedral. There, Puritan hammer-men obliterated the heads of saints, prophets and angels. That chapel remains one of the most heartbreaking sights in England. But in Europe…

The Real IRA will almost certainly murder people in mainland Britain as it continues its terrorist campaign for a united Ireland, a former republican paramilitary, now totally opposed to violence, said yesterday. Full Story

An anti-British paramilitary group based in Ireland brought its fear campaign back to London early today, police said, in the form of a large car bomb that exploded outside the BBC television studios. No one was seriously hurt in the blast, because police had evacuated the area after receiving telephoned warnings. Full Story

The military wing of the Islamist Hamas organization claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack in the Israeli town of Netanya on Sunday in which three Israelis were killed. Full Story

Britain called Tuesday for all sides in Northern Ireland&#039s political struggle to come together for talks to revive the stalled peace process two days after a powerful bomb exploded in London. Full Story

The dissident Irish terrorist group Real IRA emerged yesterday as the principal suspect in the car bombing of the BBC Television Centre in west London. Full Story

Canada&#039s spy agency didn&#039t make Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub aware of his rights when agents interviewed him last year about other suspected terrorists, court was told Friday. Full Story

Muslim militants aligned with Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden have warned Britain of a backlash in wake of the government&#039s new anti-terrorism legislation. Full Story

The fire was fairly large, but it broke out in the middle of the night in an empty building in rural Tulare County and hardly warranted a mention in local newspapers. Then, five days later, the e-mail message went out. “We chose this warehouse because it contained massive quantities of transgenic cotton seed in storage,”…

A 29-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been charged with offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Full Story

Terrorist activity on the mainland has gathered pace in the last nine months. Full Story

Thailand&#039s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has confirmed the cause of a fire which destroyed a plane he was about to board was “definitely an explosive.” Full Story

Three pro-Moscow police officers and a woman civilian died Saturday when a blast ripped through a market in the Chechen capital Grozny, ITAR-TASS quoted the Russian interior ministry as saying Sunday. Full Story

A massive car bomb blast outside the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London was designed to wreck the shaky Northern Ireland peace process, a British government minister said Monday. Full Story

‘- Israel went on high alert on Monday, expecting more suicide bombings as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon prepared to take office with the avowed aim of restoring security shattered by a Palestinian uprising. Full Story

The military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas said on Saturday it was prepared to launch suicide bombing attacks on Israelis as soon as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon takes power. Full Story

A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in an explosion that rocked the heart of the Israeli coastal city of Netanya Sunday, a day after Islamic militants vowed to launch fresh attacks. Full Story

Prudence Bushnell was certain she was going to die as she descended the bloody stairwell of a building next door to a bombed U.S. embassy in Africa. Full Story

Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden might be hiding in Afghanistan. But his agents are alive and well in Europe. Arab security sources said Bin Laden has established a network of agents in Central Europe to help supply equipment needed for his campaign against the United States and the West. They said this includes components…

The man jailed three years on secret evidence accusing him of terrorist ties said Wednesday he would feel a “moral obligation” to report terrorist activity if he knew about it. Full Story

The government began to lay the groundwork for its defense in a $10 million civil suit Wednesday by suggesting that a former Iraqi contractor whose testimony led to a conviction in a terrorist bombing may have been kicked out of the federal Witness Protection Program. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban were reported on Friday to have shelled world-famous, rock-hewn Buddhas as a U.N. envoy warned them of a devastating reaction if they carried out a plan to destroy all of the country&#039s historic statues. Full Story

An estimated two million pilgrims attended Friday prayers at Islam&#039s holiest shrine in Mecca on the eve of the haj, the annual pilgrimage in the footsteps of the Prophet Mohammad. Full Story

Israel&#039s army said on Friday it had killed a Gaza resident suspected of planning to attack Israelis, but Palestinians said he was an innocent homeless man. Full Story

Seven foreign oil workers held hostage in Ecuador&#039s Amazon jungle region for 4-1/2 months by an unidentified armed group were freed on Thursday, a week after their employers paid a $13 million ransom. Full Story

The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, an expert panel convened by the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says that botulinum toxin poses a major biological weapons threat to the public. Botulinum toxin is the cause of the disease called botulism. The Hopkins Working Group&#039s latest report recommends…

Israel&#039s chief of staff has accused Yassir Arafat&#039s Palestinian Authority of evolving into “a terrorist entity”, raising expectations of a tougher Israeli response to more than five months of clashes. Full Story

The government yesterday banned 21 groups, the majority Islamic, which it has branded as terrorist under a new law enabling it for the first time to proscribe organisations targeting foreign states. Full Story

The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office this week released President Clinton’s report to Congress on the status of federal efforts to secure the information systems that support the nation’s critical infrastructure. Full Story A copy of the report is archived here

The Tamil Tigers are among foreign organisations that the British Government intends to ban under new anti-terrorist legislation. Full Story

At least three Shiite Muslims were killed and one critically wounded as gunmen opened fire in a market in the northwestern Pakistani city of Hangu on Thursday, police said. Full Story

A “serious attack” was averted yesterday in the heart of Tel Aviv after bomb squad officers neutralized a briefcase bomb left at a restaurant in the early evening. Full Story

An Israeli car exploded in northern Israel on Thursday during a long chase by police who suspected it was carrying “terrorists” about to detonate a car bomb, and one person was killed, officials said. Full Story

One person was killed and nine wounded when a car exploded in northern Israel on Thursday during a chase by police who suspected it carried “terrorists&#039&#039 about to detonate a bomb, police and ambulance workers said. Full Story

Yemen&#039s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday the main suspect in the bombing of the warship USS Cole was believed to have fled to Afghanistan. Full Story

Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden described in a poem how the USS Cole (news – web sites) destroyer slowly sailed to its doom at Aden port, where a suicide bombing attack killed 17 U.S. sailors on board, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Full Story

ABCNEWS has learned that the FBI in Los Angeles has arrested members of a terrorist organization. FBI officials are not providing any details of the arrest or the charges but said they will be holding a news conference at 1:30 p.m. ET. ABCNEWS.com will carry the news conference live. Full Story

The same advantages the Internet and advanced technology bring to the general public and to business — speed, security and global linkage — are helping international terrorist groups organize their deadly and disruptive activities. Full Story

A federal judge on Tuesday denied convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols&#039 request to void his conviction and life sentence, rejecting an argument that jury instructions in the original trial were faulty. Full Story

China continued to send “substantial” assistance to Pakistan&#039s missile program during the first half of 2000 and also aided missile programs in Iran, North Korea and Libya, according to a CIA report. Full Story

President Bush vowed on Tuesday to press for improved trade terms to help Colombia’s stricken economy and to tackle drug trafficking, but the U.S. leader said he would not get directly involved in the peace negotiations between the Colombian government and left-wing rebels. Bush made his remarks after meeting Colombia’s president, Andres Pastrana, at the…

Home Secretary Jack Straw is due to publish the first list of organisations to be banned under the new Terrorism Act. Full Story

Up to 500 people were being told by the RUC yesterday that their personal details have been found in the hands of loyalist terrorists.The warnings follow searches in north Belfast in which police seized documents and computer disks along with weapons and pipe bombs. Some of the information is thought to be up to 10…

George W Bush is planning to ban the Real IRA in America as a way of cutting off support and funding for the terrorist group that carried out the Omagh bombing. Full Story