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

An initiative from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) calling for a computerized tracking system to monitor foreign college students has met mixed reviews among members of higher education. Full Story

The top leader of the Basque separatist group ETA has been arrested in France, the Spanish Interior Ministry says. Full Story

The Clinton administration has added the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to its list of foreign terrorist organizations, saying the group has ties to the Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, administration officials said today. Full Story

Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said he had ordered the arrest of the youngest son of former president Suharto, apparently in connection with the bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Full Story

A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bomb attack killed six people in the Sri Lankan capital Friday as fresh clashes broke out between government forces and the separatist guerrillas in the north of the country. Full Story, Additional Story

Pushing a crackdown on violent neo-Nazis, Germany banned the German division of an international skinhead group called “Blood and Honor” on Thursday, saying it spread Nazism through racist music, magazines and Web sites. Full Story

Fire bombs have become a near nightly occurrence in Athens, the Greek capital. Extremists have taken to a new spree of attacks, flinging makeshift gas bombs at diplomatic cars and foreign and state holdings in Greek cities.Full Story

A man with a knife hijacked a Qatar Airways plane en route Thursday from the Gulf nation to Jordan with 144 people aboard and ordered it flown to Saudi Arabia, where the hijacker surrendered. Full Story

A retired Socialist politician was seriously wounded in Spain&#039s Basque region on Thursday night in the latest attack blamed on ETA separatist radicals amid an escalating wave of violence. Full Story, Additional Story

At least three people were killed in a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomb attack in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Friday. Full Story

South Africa did not have the legal instruments to combat urban terror adequately, Justice Minister Penuel Maduna said yesterday and gave broad approval to tough draft anti-terrorism legislation published recently. Full Story

Indonesia&#039s government on Thursday gingerly pointed the finger at supporters of ousted autocrat Suharto and the wayward military as possible culprits in a massive bomb blast in the capital which killed 15 people. Full Story

Louis Freeh, director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), held talks Thursday with top Russian security officials on boosting law enforcement cooperation, news agencies reported. Full Story

A New York woman accused of terrorism denied during questioning by a judge that she had ever collaborated with leftist rebels or participated in violent acts. Full Story

Ten policemen and a prisoner they were escorting were killed Wednesday when their convoy was ambushed by suspected armed guerrillas in northeastern India. Full Story

Bombers terrorizing South Africa&#039s top tourist destination have stepped up their campaign with a blast aimed at Western Cape province&#039s top politician, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said Wednesday. Full Story

Two explosions in 24 hours in Northern Ireland, blamed by police on dissident pro-Irish guerrillas, prompted a key Protestant politician to call on Wednesday for tighter security in the British-ruled province. Full Story

Muslim rebels threatened on Thursday to launch attacks on towns in the southern Philippines if the military attempted to rescue 19 hostages held by them. Full Story

Indonesian police said on Thursday they had recovered 15 bodies after a massive car bomb hit the Jakarta stock exchange building on the eve of the resumption of former President Suharto&#039s graft trial. Full Story

The man is in shadow, his face slightly digitized, a baseball-type cap pulled low over his brow. His hands — the first glimpse of him that we see — move animatedly as he calmly describes, in Arabic, his involvement in one of modern history&#039s most horrific and public terrorist acts. Full Story

When Michael Osterholm speaks of &#039&#039the perfect storm,&#039&#039 he&#039s not talking about the weather. He&#039s talking about what would happen if smallpox virus were let loose in an American city. Full Story

Terrorists holding civilians hostage in the Philippines are paid millions of dollars to free them. Their little-known cause is trumpeted around the world, they ridicule the president of the Philippines and win new support for their insurgency. Full Story

A bomb exploded in a parking lot near a mosque and a hall where an opposition party meeting was being held tonight, in the latest in a series of attacks in this coastal city. Seven people were injured, though only slightly. Full Story

A gunman in Bangladesh who took 13 people hostage in a government office in the south-eastern town of Khagrachari has given himself up. Full Story

The office of the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan strongly denounced criticism this week that it had unfairly singled out Muslims during its broad investigation of Osama bin Laden, whom the authorities believe masterminded the bombings of two American embassies in East Africa in 1998. Full Story

Organizers called a halt to an anti-globalization demonstration outside the World Economic Forum (WEF) Wednesday, with fears some protesters would now target the Olympic Games. Full Story

A powerful explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb rocked the Jakarta stock exchange building on Wednesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and reviving the specter of renewed instability in Indonesia. Full Story

A mortar bomb exploded next to a Northern Irish police station on Wednesday less than 24 hours after a British soldier narrowly escaped injury in a blast at an army base. Full Story

Police arrested 19 people in dawn raids Wednesday and claimed they had delivered a major blow to ETA, the Basque separatist group waging an escalating campaign of violence. Full Story

A decade ago, Alik Galiyev had a promising career as one of the Soviet Union&#039s leading biological weapons scientists. Together with his colleagues, he helped design and construct the world&#039s largest anthrax production plant, capable of churning out enough biological agents to destroy all urban life on the planet. Full Story

One of the four European hostages freed over the weekend by Philippine guerrillas said some of the female hostages released earlier had been raped by the rebels, Finnish television reported today. Full Story

Eight people were arrested Tuesday morning in a large-scale police action against suspected terrorists in the island of Corsica, reported Agence France-Presse. Full Story

A gunman was killed and another one was taken prisoner on Tuesday morning during the fighting near the Aslanbek check point in the Nogaisky Region of Dagestan, which borders on Chechnya, a spokesman for the press service of the Dagestan Interior Ministry told Tass. Full Story

The South African government is planning to fast-track new anti-terrorism legislation through Parliament to give it the power to ban the militant People Against Gangsterism and Drugs or PAGAD organisation which has been blamed for the dramatic escalation of terrorism attacks in Cape Town. Full Story

Government troops have surrounded the Guinean embassy in the Liberian capital Monrovia. Tension between the two countries has been rising after a series of armed incidents near the border, and Guinean President Lansana Conte ordered the rounding up of Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees at the weekend. Full Story

Suspected militants entered an army camp in India&#039s Kashmir state and started an overnight battle that left four soldiers and two militants dead, an army official said Tuesday. Full Story

Exasperated Philippine officials Tuesday signaled a possible assault on Muslim rebels after they seized three more hostages in Malaysia and threatened to behead an American captive. Full Story

A gunman freed 14 hostages he had taken in Bangladesh&#039s southeastern town of Khagrachhari and surrendered to the army Tuesday, police said. Full Story

.N. peacekeepers stepped up patrols on the main highway from Sierra Leone&#039s capital to the interior on Monday as British paratroops began leaving the country after rescuing six comrades and a Sierra Leonean liaison officer held hostage by gunmen in nearby jungle. Full Story

The FBI is establishing an anti-terrorism task force in Western Washington that will draw on a variety of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Full Story

Investigators believe that a massive explosion near the capital of China&#039s tense Muslim northwest that killed 60 people and injured 173 was likely an accident but have not ruled out terrorism, an official said yesterday. Full Story

Cape Town is threatened with a major bomb blast as a group blamed for a series of bombings switches to more powerful explosives, South African Safety Minister Steve Tshwete said on Monday. Full Story

Guerrilla groups in Northern Ireland are thought to have carried out two separate shootings in the Northern Ireland capital Belfast on Sunday night, police said early on Monday. Full Story

President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that cabinet is soon to table an anti-terrorism Bill under which all persons captured in action against the government will be charged and punished. Full Story

Two Italian priests were captured during an attack on a Guinean border town and are now thought to be prisoners in neighboring Sierra Leone, a bishop said Saturday. Full Story