The Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility Friday for a series of attacks that cost four lives in northern Spain in recent weeks, in a statement published in the Basque newspaper Gara. Full Story

A group of alleged kidnappers arrested over the weekend is being linked by prosecutors here to a violent and well-armed mafia accused of some of Mexico&#039s most spectacular abductions. Full Story

There has been a bomb explosion outside the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan. The building&#039s outer wall was damaged in the explosion, but there were no casualties. Full Story

The government&#039s star witness against Mazen Al-Najjar, an alleged terrorist jailed for 1,200 days on secret evidence, conceded Wednesday that he had no unclassified information proving that Al-Najjar advocated violence or exchanged funds with terrorists. Full Story

Judges suspended the Lockerbie bombing trial for three weeks on Thursday, leaving the prosecution&#039s star witness, a Libyan former double agent, still waiting to testify. Full Story

U.S. officials say they believe “there are possible links” between Abu Sayyaf, the Philippine group responsible for kidnapping an American citizen on Monday, and a terrorist group linked to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. Full Story

There some ugly business being transacted in the Philippines. It&#039s a three-way deal among a tiny band of Filipino Muslim extremists; Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan strongman; and several major democratic governments. It goes like this: The extremist group, known as Abu Sayyaf, kidnaps Europeans and other foreigners and holds them in brutal conditions for months.…

At least 13 people were injured when a bomb exploded on Thursday in a mini-bus terminal in North Cotabato province in the southern Philippines, local television said. Full Story

Chechen rebels are planning to stage a series of terrorist and sabotage acts on September 6, the so-called Ichkeria Independence Day, First Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Manilov said on Thursday. Full Story

Taliban&#039s supreme leader Mulla Muhammad Omar has said that the U.N. sanctions could not force the student militia to expel Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan. Full Story

The security forces have killed nine Kurdistan Workers&#039 Party (PKK) terrorists during two days of fighting in the Tunceli region of southeastern Turkey, a security official said on Wednesday. Full Story

Islamic militants in the Philippines have threatened to behead an American hostage unless the US agrees to release a jailed Islamic militant. Full Story

More than 1,000 people were evacuated from a train bound for Sydney on Thursday morning after a suspicious package was found on board and authorities used the protocol that has been designed for next month&#039s 2000 Olympic Games to deal with the situation. Full Story

An empty bus was blown up near the venue of the trial of former Indonesian President Suharto when a device was hurled at it but there were no casualties, police and SCTV television reported on Thursday. Full Story

A British military spokesman said five British soldiers released by their captors in Sierra Leone were safe and well in the capital, Freetown. Full Story

Colombian police deactivated a 4.4-pound bomb in this colonial port city Wednesday a short distance from a building President Clinton was due to visit later in the day. Full Story

A 1996 order prohibiting the release of certain information in the Oklahoma City bombing trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols will remain in effect, a judge ruled Tuesday. Full Story

Moderate Kosovo Serbian leaders opposed to Slobodan Milosevic&#039s Belgrade regime on Wednesday accused the United States of turning a blind eye to ethnic Albanian extremism. Full Story

The US embassy in the Philippines on Wednesday warned its nationals to avoid travelling to certain areas in the southern Philippines following the abduction of an American by Muslim extremists. Full Story

The Olympic security clamp is closing on Sydney. Armed police with sniffer dogs and specialist searching equipment began sweeps through the main Olympic precinct Wednesday, searching for bombs and other contraband in preparation for a security “lockdown” of Olympic Park which comes into force on Friday. Full Story

The CIS anti-terrorist center is bound to prevent the proliferation of terrorism and drug contraband, Kazakh Ambassador to Russia Tair Mansurov told Itar- Tass on Tuesday. Full Story

At least seven people suffered light injuries when a car bomb exploded at Heerengracht here yesterday afternoon — the latest in a series of explosions to rock the city. Full Story

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called on Tuesday for vigilance to counter the threat of insurgency by Islamic rebels who have already fought government forces in two neighboring Central Asian states. Full Story

Olympic officials have said that a maverick attacker acting alone would pose a bigger threat to next month&#039s Sydney Games than any organised terrorist group. Full Story

A bomb exploded in the home of Armenia&#039s top military prosecutor, but no one was hurt, officials said Wednesday. Full Story

Tensions escalated in Northern Ireland Wednesday after a man was injured in a shooting and 20 homes were attacked following more than a week of violence linked to a feud between Protestant guerrillas. Full Story

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar Wednesday led a second funeral service in just over a week for victims of a wave of killings blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, which shows no sign of easing its attacks. Full Story

The United States said Wednesday it would give no concessions to Muslim rebels holding an American hostage in the southern Philippines but formally asked Manila for help in securing his release. Full Story

British troops were rushed to a Northern Ireland town on Tuesday after an 11-year-old girl was wounded in a gun attack believed to be linked to a vicious feud between Protestant guerrilla groups. Full Story

Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden sent 400 Arab fighters to the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya with explosives and weapons to help the war against Russian forces, a military instructor in his organization says. Full Story

Greece and the United States are expected to sign a joint anti-crime memorandum focusing on anti-terrorism efforts in Washington next week, a Greek government spokesman said Monday. Full Story

Indian police are searching for a gang of men who brutally attacked a British man and killed his Spanish fiancee and her teenage son while they were trekking in the Himalayan foothills. Full Story

Gunmen shot dead a young Spanish politician in the troubled Basque country Tuesday, the latest in a string of killings blamed on the separatist group ETA. Manuel Indiano Azaustre, 29, a town councilor with Spain&#039s ruling conservative Popular Party, was declared dead in hospital around 11 a.m., an hour after he was shot at the…

The following TRC Threat Assessment on the terrorism threat to the Olympics was written prior to last weekend&#039s events, but is considered to be valid at this time. Should our assessment change, we will release additional analysis. Olympic Threat Assessment

The Terrorism Research Center has released two new essays by TRC Associate Chris Quillen. The first entitled “State Sponsored WMD Terrorism: A Growing Threat?” is a well-researched analysis of WMD terrorism. The second entitled “Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Can You Trust Your Umbrella?” is a light and humorous essay on the role of umbrellas in…

The head of security for the Sydney Olympics said on Monday a reported plot to blow up Australia”s only nuclear reactor during the games had been exaggerated and he did not think there was any threat. Full Story

The number of FBI intelligence officers has grown almost fivefold during the Clinton administration, but internal security and terrorism cases accounted for only 45 of the FBI&#039s 12,730 convictions in 1998, a Syracuse University research center reported yesterday. Full Story

Police in Tokyo blamed leftist guerrillas after a bomb exploded under the car of a mid-level Transportation Ministry official. Full Story

At the nuclear reactor at the center of an Olympics terrorism scare, a lone security guard patrolled the main gate Monday checking workers&#039 credentials before allowing them in. Full Story

Shogo Kawakita Japanese Red Army Faction members in Pyongyang denied the possibility that they could be deported from North Korea due to U.S. pressure on the country to expel them, a U.N. official said Sunday. Full Story

Israel will continue to fight all kinds of terrorist activities despite the heavy prices it has to pay, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said here on Sunday. Full Story

The police yesterday reported that five more Jamaicans were killed between Saturday and yesterday as the “carnival of violence” continued unabated throughout the country. Full Story

At least three people including two policemen were killed and eight others injured here Monday when a rally to protest a steep hike in power rates turned violent in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Full Story

New Zealand detectives have foiled a possible terrorist plot to target a nuclear reactor in Sydney, venue for next month&#039s Olympic Games. Full Story

Six foreign hostages released by Muslim rebels after months in their jungle lair left the Philippines on Monday for a handover ceremony in Libya, their last stop before going home and getting on with their lives. Full Story

Ethnic Hutu rebels killed five people in an overnight attack on Burundi&#039s capital even as the central African nation&#039s main political parties tried to thrash out a peace deal. Full Story

A small homemade bomb exploded after being thrown into the front carpark of the Malaysian embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta late on Sunday, but no one was injured, police said. Full Story

The Act reforms and extends previous counter-terrorist legislation, and puts it largely on a permanent basis Full Story

Police arrested a former army paratrooper who says he has formed a revolutionary group in Brazil to carry out bold robberies and stockpile arms and cash in a bid to overthrow the government. Full Story

A cache of explosives has been found in a wood in southern England, police announced Saturday. Full Story

British commanders in Sierra Leone prepared on Sunday to pursue a search for a group of British soldiers abducted in the West African country, amid uncertainty over the captors&#039 identity and their motives. Full Story

Russia&#039s secret services have launched a probe into two Dagestanis who were aboard the Kursk nuclear submarine when it sank on August 12, media reports quoted Federal Security Service (FSB, ex-KGB) chief Nikolai Patrushev as saying Thursday. Full Story

The head of Germany&#039s domestic intelligence agency warned in an interview Friday that the “first signs” of organized right-wing terrorism were surfacing in the country, which has seen a rash of racist incidents this summer. Full Story

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao today condemned armed bandits who invaded two central Asian countries. Full Story

If you are a skier, the word &#039Vail&#039 probably conjures up an area of perfect snow and bright sunshine. Colorado&#039s Rockies are now the most sought-after skiing destination in the world. But this seemingly pristine mountain playground is at the centre of America&#039s latest environmental controversy. Full Story

Law enforcement bodies thwarted terrorist acts in 36 Russian cities over the past 10 days alone. They seized great quantities of explosives and over 3,000 firearms. These data were cited on Thursday by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, opening a meeting of the federal anti-terrorist commission. Full Story

Muslim rebels threatened to call off a deal to free six hostages after police arrested two men carrying bundles of money believed to be part of a ransom payment, officials said Friday. Full Story

Greek anarchists set fire to a car belonging to the defence attache of the Yugoslav embassy in Athens early on Friday, but nobody was injured, police said. Full Story

Suspected militants set off a bomb in India”s insurgency-racked northeastern state of Assam on Friday, killing four people and injuring four, police said. Full Story

The State Department has asked the Agency for International Development to withdraw its registration from one of the largest Muslim charities in the United States, saying it has ties to the terrorist group Hamas, government officials say. Full Story