Michael Sheehan, chief of the US taskforce on counter-terrorism, arrived in New Delhi Monday as part of an ongoing Indo-US effort to jointly fight terrorism, a foreign ministry spokesman said. Full Story

Anti-capitalism protesters hurled stones and home-made gasoline bombs at police guarding the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Tuesday as a week of muted demonstrations turned ugly. Full Story

Indonesian police said on Tuesday two soldiers arrested over the bombing of the Jakarta stock exchange, which killed 15 people, had planted the bomb and helped build it. Full Story

U.N. peacekeepers shot dead a pro-Jakarta militiaman in East Timor on Tuesday on the eve of a deadline for the violent gangs to surrender their guns to Indonesian authorities. New Zealand peacekeepers fired on three or four militiamen advancing on their observation post southwest of Kulit, five miles from the border with Indonesian West Timor.…

Fierce fighting erupted in Sri Lanka&#039s northern Jaffna peninsula on Tuesday as government troops launched their fourth push this month against Tamil Tiger rebels, military officials said. Full Story

Accused terrorist Osama bin Laden has reappeared on the world stage vowing to free the blind Egyptian cleric imprisoned in the United States for the 1993 bombing of New York City’s World Trade Center. Full Story

The rebels&#039 use of teenagers in acts of terrorism has become a regular thing. “The railroad troops have unarmed a time bomb planted by Chechen teenagers under a tank truck at the Dzhalka station,” a representative of the federal force in the Northern Caucasus told Itar-Tass on Sunday. Full Story

A melee erupted when police broke up a neo-Nazi concert with tear gas and smoke bombs in the northern city of Lueneberg, injuring 46 officers and 15 others, police said Sunday. Full Story

Ten policemen have been killed by Maoist rebels in the north-west of Nepal, the authorities say. They died when the rebels – armed with guns and grenades – attacked a police station in the remote hill district of Dolpa. Full Story

Farmers protesting destruction of coca-leaf plants clashed with soldiers trying to end their demonstrations Sunday, leaving two farmers dead and seven injured in the latest in a string of violent confrontations. Coca-leaf farmers have set up roadblocks that have interrupted traffic on the country&#039s main highway for a week, including sections that go through the…

Police investigating a series of bombings that have terrorized Jakarta arrested two members of the armed forces after a shootout, officers said Monday. Full Story

Nearly two dozen people were killed in clashes around embattled Indonesia over the weekend, with violence hobbling the Moluccas islands and troubled Aceh province, media reports said Monday. Full Story

On October 16, 1997, my Eureka, California District Office was rocked by what sounded like a thunderous explosion. In fact, the sound was that of a 500-pound tree stump being dumped off a truck onto the office foyer floor. Upon responding to the horrific sound, my two female staff members were greeted by the visage…

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers, accused of sheltering militant Osama Bin Laden, said there was no proof that the Saudi-born national was engaged in terrorist activities. Full Story

The former chief of Chile&#039s secret police, convicted of masterminding a lethal car bombing in Washington in 1976, was an informer for the CIA when the bombing occurred, newly released documents show. Full Story

The Philippine government said Friday that France has offered to help the Philippines institute a program to fight the growing “menace of terrorism.” Full Story

Israeli anti-terrorism experts have been helping India combat Muslim separatists in the disputed state of Kashmir, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday. Full Story

Increased recognition that the United States is vulnerable to major acts of terrorism against the homeland has been a cornerstone of the U.S. national security agenda in recent years. Full Story

A Russian-built anti-tank weapon was used in Wednesday&#039s attack on the London headquarters of Britain&#039s Secret Intelligence Service, police said Friday. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s Taliban forces said Friday they had seized a river port and three other strategic areas on the northern border with Tajikistan in the latest of a string of victories over their opponents. Full Story

Burundi&#039s army said Friday it had killed 70 rebels over the past two weeks in fighting in the country&#039s southern and eastern provinces. Full Story

A U.S. expert on terrorism said Friday there was a “real risk&#039&#039 of attempts to attack the Athens Olympics in 2004 unless Greece makes up lost time in its preparations for the event. Full Story

Ukraine&#039s SBU security service said Friday its agents had foiled an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in the former Soviet republic and seize key sites, including the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Full Story

Three months after this year&#039s first West Nile fever patient was diagnosed, the Health Ministry yesterday held its first press conference on the subject and admitted that what it has been calling an outbreak could be termed an “epidemic.” Full Story

Making membership in a criminal gang illegal will only end up curtailing our civil liberties. Full Story

They are a small band of aging revolutionaries armed with handguns, rockets, and at least one World War II bazooka stolen from a museum. Full Story

Until Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, Toledo officials had done little to prepare this area for the possibility of a terrorist attack. Full Story

The United States plans to send a senior official to North Korea to break a deadlock on a series of issues, including removing Pyongyang from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, South Korea&#039s top envoy to the U.S. said in an interview published Thursday. Full Story

A day after two French hostages fled to freedom on a jungle-clad Philippine island, the government held out hope that a military operation now under way could soon free American hostage Jeffrey Schilling. Full Story

A “small missile&#039&#039 was fired at the headquarters of the MI6 foreign intelligence service in central London Wednesday night, a high-profile symbol of the establishment and one of Britain&#039s most secure buildings. Full Story

An unidentified group in the Black Sea resort of Sochi took seven people hostage Thursday and Russian news agencies said the masked captors wanted a ransom and freedom for Chechen prisoners held in Russian jails. Full Story

A town councilor for Spain&#039s ruling party was shot dead in a suburb of Barcelona Thursday in the latest of a wave of attacks blamed on ETA Basque separatist rebels. Full Story

Twelve people, from a group of up to 80 seized in a mass kidnapping outside Colombia&#039s second-largest city, walked free on Wednesday amid fighting in the mountainous area where they were held, authorities said. Full Story

The United States has thrown its weight behind the current efforts of Uzbekistan and other governments in Central Asia to combat terrorist insurgents, at least some of whom are members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Full Story

The Sri Lankan Government says at least 20 of its soldiers have been killed in an ambush by Tamil Tiger rebels. The soldiers were travelling in a truck which detonated a mine in the north-eastern Trincomalee district. Full Story

An explosion — possibly a grenade — near the royal palace in central Phnom Penh killed two people and injured nine Tuesday, police said. Full Story

Two French television journalists were to fly home from the Philippines on Wednesday after escaping from Muslim rebel captors under cover of darkness and spending a nerve-wracking night hiding in the jungles under pouring rain. Full Story

Nine survivors and a corpse were plucked from the ocean Tuesday after a small Cuban plane apparently trying to flee the communist-ruled island went down in open sea during what Havana said was a hijack. Full Story

Barely three weeks after the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania left 258 people dead and more than 5,000 wounded, Attorney General Janet Reno received a classified briefing by senior officials in the FBI&#039s International Counterterrorism Operations Center. Full Story

Yekaterina Martynovskaya, 59, was about to go to bed when Emergency Ministry rescue workers rang the doorbell, told her to grab her documents and rush downstairs. They said there was a bomb threat in her northwest Moscow nine-story apartment building. Full Story

The goal of terrorism is not death, but change brought about by the violent introduction of fear. – Brian Houghton, director of the Terrorism Research Center. Full Story

Exiled Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, wanted by the United States for terrorism, recently survived an assassination attempt in Afghanistan, Iran&#039s official IRNA news agency said Monday. Full Story

A bomb explosion at a police checkpoint killed at least three policeman on Monday, just a day after soldiers repulsed a rebel counterattack in the north that left 111 combatants dead and more than 200 wounded. The explosion near the eastern town of Kalmunai occurred when police stopped a van to search it, said a…

Two bombs exploded Tuesday near a crowded market in the troubled eastern Indonesian town of Ambon, sending hundreds of shoppers fleeing in panic. Full Story

U.S. intelligence agencies have obtained a manual allegedly used by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to train recruits at terrorist camps in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials on Monday said it was not the key to disrupting future activities. Full Story

A bomb ripped through a busy fruit market on the edge of Pakistan&#039s capital of Islamabad on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding about 60 in what the military government called an act of terrorism. Full Story

Police Tuesday seized arms and explosives in an apartment near the city of Bilbao believed to have been used as a command center for the violent Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Full Story

Four people were hurt, one seriously, Monday when a van was blown up in the latest in a series of attacks fuelling tension in Northern Ireland. Full Story

Marxist rebels who seized up to 53 people in a mass kidnapping outside Colombia&#039s second-largest city have freed 23 of the captives, including an American woman, as they fled security forces, authorities said Monday. Full Story

Calm has been restored to Ivory Coast&#039s main city Abidjan after a dawn attack on the home of military ruler, General Robert Guei. Full Story

An explosion wounded up to five people outside a shop in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday in what appeared to be an attack by criminals, Israel Radio said. Full Story

An office building was badly damaged after an explosion rocked Belfast&#039s Shankill Road early this morning. Full Story

A U.N. refugee worker was killed and a second was kidnapped in a raid Sunday in West Africa, officials said. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. Full Story

Greek anarchists set fire to a German embassy car on Monday, the latest in a rash of attacks on diplomatic vehicles over the past month, Greek media reported. Full Story

Jordan&#039s State Security Court on Monday sentenced to death six Muslim militants linked to Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden for plotting attacks against Israeli and U.S. targets in the kingdom. Full Story

These are cracking good times in the hostage business. In 1999, according to an insurance company that tries to keep count, the numbers taken captive increased by 6% over 1998, and it has been like that for several years: kidnappings for ransom are up by 70% over eight years. Most are in Latin America, but…

Defense Secretary William Cohen told Indonesia on Monday to disband violent militias operating in West Timor, but Jakarta retorted that Washington was partly to blame for the problem. Full Story

Suspected Marxist rebels kidnapped at least 30 people Sunday after erecting makeshift roadblocks along a major highway outside Colombia&#039s second-largest city, authorities said. Full Story

French police arrested 11 more suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA at the weekend, stepping up their drive against the outlawed guerrilla organization. Full Story

At least 19 soldiers and seven Marxist rebels have died in the latest round of fighting for control over one of Colombia&#039s key arms and drug-smuggling routes, authorities said on Sunday. Full Story