Steel barricades that can rise into place to stop up to 7½ tons of speeding truck, and cameras capable of reading a newspaper a block away are just some of the new measures protecting federal court buildings for New York&#039s fifth major terrorism trial in a decade. Full Story

Sometime over the next quarter-century a direct terrorist attack “against American citizens on American soil” with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons is likely, and the nation has few defenses against such a threat. That assertion by the congressionally mandated Commission on National Security is not alarmist but realistic, and it should be treated by the…

After 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found innocent of the destruction of Pan American Flight 103, and another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other thing that the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the…

Prosecutors will accuse four men later on Monday of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the 1998 fatal bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa as part of the Saudi dissident&#039s plots to kill Americans wherever they could. Full Story

Two people were injured in an explosion in Northern Ireland Sunday, hospital officials said, and a Roman Catholic politician said the blast had been caused by a pipe bomb. Full Story

Bangladesh police arrested a leader of a Muslim fundamentalist group Sunday for questioning about unrest in Dhaka, triggering fresh protests in the capital by his supporters in which witnesses said nearly 100 people were hurt. Full Story

A top Russian security official said Sunday Afghanistan was supporting about 30 “terrorist&#039&#039 camps aimed at training commandos as well as smuggling drugs and arms. Full Story

Suddenly, the threat of bioterrorism on American soil doesn&#039t seem so far-fetched anymore.A series of anthrax hoaxes nearly shut down Canada&#039s immigration department this week. At the same time, a blue-ribbon US commission reported that an attack using nuclear, chemical, or biological agents was likely in the United States in the next 25 years. In…

British troops fired plastic bullets and drove tanks through the streets of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Thursday to scatter hundreds of ethnic Albanians hurling rocks and gasoline bombs. Full Story

Security service forces freed two prison guard hostages and killed three of their captors in a pre-dawn raid on a penal colony in southern Ukraine on Friday, an official said. Full Story

Lawmakers kicked over tables and chairs and pulled out guns on the floor after legislative leaders proposed reducing the size of congress from 128 seats to 90. Full Story

White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said in a statement that President Bush “congratulates the Scottish prosecution team” that won the January 31 guilty verdict in the bombing of PanAm 103. Full Story

A blue-ribbon commission on Wednesday called for creation of a Cabinet-level agency to assume responsibility for defending the nation against the increasing likelihood of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Full Story

Police have arrested five men on suspicion of conspiring to cause explosions following a dawn raid in west London. Full Story

On the surface, there would seem to be no real difference between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and right-winger Ariel Sharon as both pound away on peace and security four days before an election. Full Story

Canadian prosecutors said on Thursday they want to file charges against a third suspect for the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet that killed 329 people in history&#039s deadliest act of aviation sabotage. Full Story

A Yemeni newspaper said Thursday the bombing of the U.S. destroyer in the port of Aden that killed 17 servicemen on October 12, 2000, required more than three years of preparations. Full Story

Suspects wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole will be tried in the United States if they are caught outside Yemen, Western diplomats said Thursday. Full Story

A smiling Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday warmly embraced a Libyan acquitted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, who returned home shaking his fist in victory and chanting, “God is great&#039&#039 before well-wishers. Full Story

A Libyan intelligence agent has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the mass murder of 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Full Story More information on the complete trial on CNN&#039s Lockerbie Bombing Trial. In-Depth Special

Correspondent David Ensor answers, What are some of the key points of the Terrorism Report released today by the Commission on National Security in the 21st Century? Full Story

The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission has just issued its third report. Read the report in pdf format. Report

An American oil worker kidnapped along with seven other internationals in Ecuador was found dead in a remote jungle, shot in the back and draped in a sheet emblazoned with a warning, authorities said Thursday. Full Story

Federal resources that were spent during the past five years on programs to defend the United States against potential weapons-of-mass-destruction attacks have not resulted in any substantial capabilities to cope with such threats, according to government, industry and independent experts. Full Story

Shortly after 15-year-old Saber Khamis Brash was shot through the heart by an Israeli soldier for slinging rocks at troops near a checkpoint, the governor of this West Bank city presented his grieving parents with an ornate, red felt-covered plaque designating the boy a martyr. Full Story

They gathered under the theme of “bridging the digital divide,” but business leaders and social activists at the World Economic Forum found that goal was overshadowed by a more troublesome divide: a communication gap. Full Story

The head of the Kremlin-backed civil administration in rebel Chechnya was slightly hurt in an explosion that injured some of his bodyguards and destroyed cars in his motorcade, an administration official said Tuesday. Full Story

Attackers threw two grenades into the compound of the British development organization Oxfam today, causing little damage and no injuries, an official said. Full Story

Moscow&#039s largest railway station was reopened to the public early Wednesday after a bomb squad detonated two bombs found Tuesday in the lost property section, Russia&#039s NTV television reported. Full Story

The Earth Liberation Front has carried out more than 100 acts of destruction in the last five years, wreaking $37 million worth of damage. To date, police have one suspect, and the group, leading a rising wave of environmental extremism, is promising to escalate its attacks. Full Story

A Libyan intelligence agent was jailed for life on Wednesday for murdering 270 people in the bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockerbie in Scotland 12 years ago. Full Story

Airlines across much of the developing world remain at risk from bomb attacks because of the failure to implement high tech security measures recommended after the Lockerbie bombing, experts said. Full Story

Colombia&#039s President Andres Pastrana on Wednesday extended for another four days a vast demilitarized enclave that has been under control of leftist guerrillas for the last two years. Full Story

Liberia said Tuesday a Guinean helicopter killed more than 10 people in a raid on a northern town, and aid workers said reports of fresh fighting in southeastern Guinea had forced them to leave the area again. Full Story

A federal judge Monday refused to throw out a confession in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, 24, had argued in court papers that his confession was coerced by U.S. investigators who threatened to hang him “like a dog” unless he cooperated. Prosecutors denied he was coerced.…

At 10 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, Dr. Thabet Thabet backed his car out of his driveway in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Suddenly, two vehicles pulled up and its uniformed occupants opened fire. Thabet, a dentist and a top-ranking local official in Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, was hit 14 times. Before he died,…

A man wounded in Sunday&#039s bomb blasts in the Ugandan capital Kampala has fled the hospital where he was being treated. Full Story

An independent panel in the United States has released a damning report on the State Department, describing its facilities as poorly equipped, overcrowded and insecure. Full Story

A power struggle between Indonesia&#039s President Abdurrahman Wahid and parliament deepened yesterday as police fired tear gas and warning shots at rock-throwing student protesters on Jakarta&#039s streets. Full Story

A community radio station is being used to counter propaganda from pro-Indonesia militia groups and convince thousands of refugees who fled East Timor or were deported after the 1999 independence vote to return home. Full Story

The long-awaited verdict on two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner blast will be issued Wednesday, judges announced Tuesday. Full Story

Indonesia&#039s defense minister on Tuesday warned that the military could seize power if political leaders did not end their bickering and focus on running the country. The often outspoken Mahfud M.D. said there were no signs yet of a military takeover, but the armed forces (TNI) would step in to prevent anarchy and the break-up…

An American aid worker kidnapped in Chechnya is being ransomed by a rebel group, Russia&#039s military commander in the troubled region, said. Full Story

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has fielded at least five special operations groups (SOGs) in various urban centers in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and this city to launch another round of bomb attacks and other forms of atrocities, police claimed yesterday. Full Story

Five neo-Nazis have been detained in connection with the weekend stabbing death of a black teen-ager, which prompted a rally Sunday denouncing racism. Full Story

Rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos — who will storm the capital in a whirlwind media splash in a matter of weeks — once again has the last word on his newest adversary, the government of President Vicente Fox. Full Story

Algerian rebels have reportedly killed 25 villagers, including 16 children and four women, in the country&#039s worst massacre this year. Full Story

Within weeks of the bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa in August 1998, American investigators and prosecutors flew from New York to Kenya and Tanzania to search for the bombers and their handlers. On Aug. 12, five days after the attacks, the American agents accompanied the Kenyan police as they entered a dingy…

A court in Yemen began on Monday hearing the case of a Yemeni man who hijacked a plane carrying 91 passengers, including the U.S. ambassador to the Arab state. Full Story

Muslim rebels on Monday gave the Philippines&#039 new government 72 hours to begin negotiating the release of an American held hostage on Jolo island, and demanded a suspension of military operations against it before the talks. Full Story

The driver of Serbia&#039s new state security chief was wounded on Sunday when a masked gunman opened the door of the official car and fired at him, state television reported. Full Story

Separatist rebels in Indonesia&#039s Irian Jaya province have released most of the 17 hostages they captured two weeks ago, but are still holding two South Koreans as bargaining chips, police said on Monday. Full Story

Opposition protesters fought running battles with police on the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar on Sunday and the death toll since Friday rose to at least 37. Full Story

Lebanon&#039s Hizbollah guerrilla group told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Sunday that it would take more Israelis hostage if he did not accept its conditions to swap four captured Israelis for Arab prisoners. Full Story

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The United States has urged Pakistan to prevail upon the militant groups, operating from its soil, to halt violence amid reports of stepped up activities of the groups, including an attempt on the life of Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and a daring attack on Srinagar Airport. Full Story

Defence ministers from six west African countries are meeting in the capital of Ivory Coast, Yamoussoukro, to discuss ways to reduce tension between Ivory Coast and its neighbours. Full Story

An Israeli man was killed yesterday in a shooting incident at the Atarot industrial zone in northern Jerusalem. Despite the terrorist attack, Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered that Israeli negotiators continue peace process talks in Taba. Full Story

Irian Jayan rebels threatened on Friday to execute 18 hostages, including three South Koreans, unless Papua New Guinea exchanged them for 13 arrested guerillas, the Australian Associated Press reported. Mathias Wenda, commander of the Free Papua Movement, was arrested on Monday with 12 other rebels after being caught inside Papua New Guinea. Full Story

Papua New Guinea police have arrested a pro-independence leader after an attack on a police outpost in Irian Jaya last month. Mathias Wenda leads one of at least eight factions within the Operasi Papua Merdeka (Free Papua Movement, or OPM). He and his deputy George Kogoiya were arrested by Papua New Guinea police in West…