Three hooded men Wednesday shot dead the head of the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) in Gaza, Palestinian security sources said. Full Story

A key Lockerbie witness was a greedy “liar and fantasist&#039&#039 who implicated Libya in the 1988 aircraft bombing in the hope of lining his own pockets, the defense said in summing-up Wednesday. Full Story

Israel eased its security clampdown on the Gaza Strip Wednesday but a thickening mood of pessimism hung over peace talks with Palestinian negotiators. Full Story

Several accounts of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Islamic students have been proffered and much has been written about the seizure of the U.S. diplomatic mission, labeled a “den of spies” by the Iranians. But “Takeover in Iran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture” by Dr. Massoumeh…

he government set a May 16 execution date Tuesday for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who has dropped his appeals and is apparently pinning all his hopes on winning clemency from the president. Full Story

A new hit film in Israel – Hahesder, or Time of Favour – is about a plot by ultra-religious Jews to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount. Now there are warnings that some are preparing to turn fiction into fact. Full Story

Gunmen — believed to be rightist rebels — stopped a bus in western Colombia Monday and methodically shot and killed 10 passengers, police said Monday. Full Story

A suicide squad of militants made an attempt to storm the Srinagar airport on Tuesday, triggering a fierce gun-battle that left four of them and two civilians dead and nine security personnel injured. Full Story

Police have said a bomb discovered in Northern Ireland was designed to kill members of the security forces. It was found on the main Armagh to Middletown Road on Saturday. Full Story

Two former army generals with close links to the Suharto regime – R. Hartono and Prabowo Subianto – have been named in a police report on the bloody Christmas Eve bombings in Indonesia last month. Full Story

Muhammad Khaled Mihraban, a polite, soft-spoken 26- year-old Pakistani, thinks he has already killed at least 100 people. Maybe more; he isn&#039t really sure. Full Story

It seemed an auspicious invitation. Afghanistan, insisted Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, the Taliban foreign minister, did not support terrorism or harbor those who committed it. Yes, he acknowledged, his country continued to harbor some Arab and non-Afghan “volunteers” from the 1980&#039s war against the Soviet Union who were not permitted to return home to their countries.…

Hans-Joachim Klein is finally being made to answer for his part in the OPEC hostage crisis in Vienna in 1975, at his trial in Frankfurt. Full Story

Government troops backed by MiG-27 jets and artillery attacked Tamil Tiger guerrillas guarding a major rebel bastion in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the military said. Full Story

Eight people were killed Tuesday in a gun-battle which erupted after separatist militants tried to storm the high security airport at Srinagar in Indian Kashmir, police said. Full Story

The lawyer for a Libyan accused of the Lockerbie bombing has cast doubt on where the suitcase holding the fatal bomb originated. Full Story

Israel is taking seriously a threat that radar-evading hang-gliders could carry terrorists over the Lebanese border for the first time since 1987, the Sunday Times of London reported. Full Story

A Syrian businessman, who lives in southern Spain said Monday that he turned down an offer by Saudi dissident and suspected international terrorist Osama bin Laden to purchase weapons on his behalf and informed the Spanish authorities about the request. Full Story

At least 33 Russian servicemen have been killed during two days of rebel attacks throughout the breakway republic, amid the bloodiest fighting for many months, a Chechen spokesman said Tuesday. Full Story

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, whose radical past was recently highlighted by photographs of him fighting police in the 1970s, testifies Tuesday in the trial of an accomplice of convicted terrorist “Carlos the Jackal”. Full Story

Colombia&#039s stop-and-start peace process took a blow on Monday as leftist rebels told mothers of military prisoners that they planned no major hostage release to revive talks with the government. Full Story

Attackers fired grenades at the chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir today, but police said he escaped the apparent assassination attempt unharmed. Full Story

The U.S. government Monday announced a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of those who attacked a U.S. warship in the Yemeni port of Aden in October, killing 17 U.S. sailors. Full Story

In 1987, several years after he began training Arab volunteers to oust Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden had a vision. The time had come, he told friends, to start a global jihad, or Islamic holy war, against the corrupt secular governments of the Muslim Middle East and the Western powers that supported them.…

In a prison in the barren hills on the outskirts of Amman, Khadar abu Hoshar waits with no regrets for the hangman. A 36-year-old father of four, Mr. abu Hoshar denies that he plotted to bomb tourist sites in Jordan. But he says he has devoted his life to the cause of jihad, or holy…

Yemeni authorities have foiled an attempt to blow up the house of the interior minister that may be linked to the arrest of suspects in October&#039s attack on a U.S. warship, a senior security official said Monday. Full Story

Israel said it had called off peace talks with the Palestinians Monday after a Jewish settler was found shot dead and the army sealed off the Gaza Strip. Full Story

Suspected members of a right-wing death squad shot and killed eight people in the northern Colombian cattle-rearing town of Valledupar, police sources said on Sunday. Full Story

The Israeli army sealed off the Gaza Strip and said there would be no peace talks Monday after a Jewish settler was found shot dead, the latest victim in nearly 16 weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Full Story

Ivory Coast tightened security in the opposition&#039s Muslim heartland for a fresh attempt at elections on Sunday seen as a potential new source of trouble after a year of turmoil. Full Story

Three people have been killed and four wounded in a fresh bout of violence in Indonesia&#039s restive Aceh province, showing the futility of a recently agreed cease-fire extension. Full Story

Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary forces battled outside a small town in Ecuador&#039s Amazon jungle, the first clash between the two in Ecuadorean territory, the country&#039s defense ministry sources said on Friday. Full Story

MI5 has been called in by the Government to help track down animal rights extremists behind an escalation of urban terrorism. In the latest attack, a nail-filled letter bomb exploded in a North Wales fish and chip shop yesterday. The owner, Jonathan Davies, 34, a country sports enthusiast, was uninjured when a shower of nails…

Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh let a deadline for resuming his appeals expire on Thursday, and his attorneys said he now wants a date set for his execution. Full Story

Afghanistan’s Taliban militia, targeted by the United States for shielding suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden, urged President-elect Bush on Friday to make an effort to improve ties. Full Story

Yemenis probing the attack on the USS Cole have put a number of questions about the ship’s security to U.S. investigators, a weekly Yemeni military newspaper has reported. Full Story

Down a street from where children play, just yards away from homes and vegetable gardens, the Plague Research Institute in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital is a terrorist’s dream. Under the guise of civilian research, the institute collected and housed thousands of deadly germs during the Soviet era to be used against the United States in a…

Ecuador believes it has found an abandoned Colombian guerrilla camp in its jungle, fueling fears that leftist rebels from its northern neighbor may be operating across the border, military sources said Thursday. Full Story

At least 24 countries, including Iraq and North Korea, either possess weapons of mass destruction or are in the process of acquiring them, Defense Secretary Cohen told a National Press Club audience January 10. Full Story

Fingerprint evidence that had been challenged by defense lawyers may be admitted by prosecutors in the upcoming trial of accused terrorist Ahmed Ressam, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour has ruled. Full Story

Lawyers for two Libyans accused of mass murder for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing slammed security practices at Frankfurt airport on Friday as they continued closing submissions in the eight-month trial. Full Story

Russian troops said Friday they had freed a Russian hostage during a massive search operation in rebel Chechnya for kidnapped U.S. aid worker Kenny Gluck. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana toured a car-bombed mall parking lot on Thursday but refused to lay blame for the bombing at a sensitive time for peace talks with leftist rebels. Full Story

A bomb blast rocked the Belfast offices of one of Northern Ireland&#039s main political parties on Thursday. Police said there were no reports of any injuries caused by the explosion outside the north Belfast office of the moderate Roman Catholic nationalist Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP). Full Story

Spanish police today arrested two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA driving a car loaded with explosives, averting a possible new attack, officials said. Full Story

Israel has reopened a major road through the Gaza Strip after senior Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed to resume joint security patrols. Israeli tanks moved back from the road and concrete slabs were removed, allowing cars to pass for the first time in weeks. Full Story

The main separatist alliance in Indian-administered Kashmir has named a five-man team to visit Pakistan to hold talks there. The All Party Hurriyat [Freedom] Conference said Abdul Gani Lone, Omer Farooq, Moulvi Abbas Ansari, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Sheikh Abdul Aziz would travel to Pakistan next week. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban movement said on Sunday it had recaptured a strategic town lost to opposition forces in the central province of Bamiyan a week ago and shot down an opposition helicopter. Full Story

Lockerbie defense lawyers on Thursday tore into core elements of the prosecution case in final arguments aimed at saving two Libyans from life in jail for murdering 270 people in the 1988 bombing. Full Story

Six people were shot dead at a mosque in Yemen when an argument between tribesmen over nominating candidates to run in upcoming municipal elections erupted into violence, witnesses said Thursday. Full Story

A car bomb wrecked a parking lot in a busy shopping mall in the Colombian city of Medellin on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 50 as the government struggled to revive peace talks with leftist guerrillas. Full Story

Terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden appeared happy and smiling at his son’s wedding in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar in footage shown Wednesday on an Arab satellite channel. Full Story

The PDD outlines specific steps that will enable the U.S. counterintelligence (CI) community to better fulfill its mission of identifying, understanding, prioritizing and counteracting the intelligence threats faced by the United States. The system will be predictive, proactive and will provide integrated oversight of counterintelligence issues across the national security agencies. Full Story

Police have defused a bomb left in a cemetery where relatives had just met to pay homage to a politician killed by the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

Reports from Saudi Arabia say there&#039s been an explosion at a shopping mall in the capital, Riyadh, causing damage but no injuries. Full Story

A bomb hidden in a handcart exploded at the gate of Kashmir&#039s main telephone exchange Tuesday, wounding 30 people who were waiting to pay their bills, police said. Five were critically injured. Full Story

The U.S. military must make defense against “terrorist&#039&#039 attacks one of its top priorities and train all troops to protect themselves against attack, a Pentagon commission set up after last year&#039s bombing of a U.S. destroyer in Yemen recommended Tuesday. Full Story

President Clinton&#039s last-gasp Middle East peace drive faltered Wednesday as confusion mounted over the fate of a mission by an American envoy. Full Story

A U.S. citizen working for an aid group was kidnapped in Chechnya and another slightly wounded after gunmen, apparently separatist rebels, attacked their cars, Russian officials and aid workers said Wednesday. Full Story

Indonesia and rebels in Aceh agreed Wednesday to extend their cease-fire for another month and to meet again in February to try to find a political solution to years of violence in which thousands of people have died. Full Story