The risk of a missile attack against the United States involving chemical, biological or nuclear warheads is greater today than during most of the Cold War and will continue to grow in the next 15 years, according to a new global threat assessment by the National Intelligence Council. Full Story

The former chairman of a loyalist party in Northern Ireland has refused to speculate on who was behind a shooting at his home. Full Story

Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo said former junta ruler General Robert Guei, who fled in the face of street protests after trying to rig the presidential election in October, was recruiting mercenaries in Liberia. Full Story

Police said restless soldiers shot at and hit a commuter plane chartered by Exxon Mobil, forcing it to abort a landing Monday at an airport in Indonesia&#039s troubled Aceh province. Full Story

A car belonging to The Washington Post was doused with gasoline and set on fire at the front gate of the newspaper&#039s bureau here this evening, as was a car owned by The Post&#039s Jerusalem correspondent. No one was injured. Full Story

Two people were killed in Colombia&#039s capital Friday when suspected right-wing paramilitary gunmen attacked a union leader who had been facilitating peace talks between the government and leftist rebels. Full Story

Two more massacres are reported to have taken place in Algeria, bringing to nearly 40 the number of people killed by suspected Islamic militants in the past day. Full Story

A federal judge in the embassy bombings case in Manhattan ruled yesterday that a defendant whose lawyers had suggested he was suffering from mental illness was competent to stand trial. Full Story

In Dammaj, it can be dangerous to mention America. In this dusty village in northern Yemen, on the edge of the great Arabian desert called the Empty Quarter, it is enough to mention the United States, among the thousands of Islamic militants who teach and study here, to furrow brows, darken voices and set trigger…

British anti-terrorist police have flown to Saudi Arabia after the third bomb attack on British citizens in the country in less than a month, British police said on Monday. Full Story

Lebanon&#039s Hizbollah has rejected an Israeli offer to trade the remains of its fighters for information on four Israelis seized by the guerrilla group in October, a Beirut newspaper reported on Monday. Full Story

Algerian rebels machine-gunned to death 15 teenage students and a teacher as they lay in their beds at a boarding school over the weekend, hospital sources said on Sunday. Full Story

Protesters against a visit by Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider to the Vatican clashed with riot police blocking their approach to St Peter&#039s Square on Saturday. Full Story

Sri Lankan troops overran Tamil rebel positions in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Saturday in an offensive that left heavy losses on both sides, a military spokesman said. Full Story

A Briton was severely injured late Friday by a bomb explosion in Saudi Arabia, the third such attack on a member of the Kingdom&#039s British community in less than a month, officials said Saturday. Full Story

Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said on Saturday he expected the U.N. Security Council to act next week to force ethnic Albanian guerrillas out of southern Serbia. Full Story

The United States has taken new steps to ensure it&#039s no sitting duck for terrorists. Full Story

Trademark pirates in Afghanistan are not only ripping off Nike by counterfeiting shirts with the company&#039s famous swoosh. They&#039re also making the shirts with slogans supporting alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Saudi police have linked a detained U.S. citizen to an explosion that killed a British man, a Saudi Cabinet minister said in remarks published Thursday. Full Story

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian militant to death Thursday when he pulled a pistol at a military checkpoint in the Gaza Strip the army said – the fourth killing of a known Palestinian activist in as many days. Full Story

Yemen&#039s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday it was possible Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden was involved in the apparent suicide bombing of the U.S. navy destroyer Cole in Aden in which 17 U.S. sailors were killed. Full Story

The Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (Gilmore Commission) released its Second Annual Report, Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism. Full Report in Adobe Acrobat format.

The United States needs a new White House Office for Combating Terrorism, with a director chosen by the president and confirmed by the Senate, according to a blue-ribbon panel looking into the U.S. strategy to respond to domestic terrorism. Full Story

At least five people, including three policemen, have been killed in a bomb attack near a school in eastern Sri Lanka, which military authorities say was carried out by the Tamil Tiger rebels. Full Story

Ten people, including a militant and a woman, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir, even as public works minister Ali Mohammad Sagar on Wednesday escaped a bid on his life in a militant attack in which 15 people were injured in Anantnag district, official sources said here. Full Story

Police seized a car containing a bomb in central Belfast Thursday, and arrested two men. Full Story, More Details

President Clinton&#039s last presidential visit to Northern Ireland ended Wednesday with a peace process still stalled and politicians feuding, yet citizens still longing for a violence-free future. He told the people of Belfast to “claim your moment&#039&#039 for peace. Full Story

An explosion blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA left a city councilor critically injured Thursday in a small northeast Spanish town, news reports said.Full Story, Another Story

At least eight people were killed and 19 wounded Wednesday in one of three bomb attacks against Ecuador&#039s main oil pipeline near the border with Colombia, the government said. Full Story

The elusive November 17 terrorist group mocked authorities for incompetence Tuesday and called the slaying of a British diplomat six months ago its most important act in 25 years of violence. Full Story

Six Yemeni suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole have been identified by sources close to the investigation, who say they share a background as fighters in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Full Story

Hizbollah and Israel both said Wednesday they did not expect to trade captives any time soon, dismissing media reports that the guerrilla group will swap four Israelis for Lebanese detainees within weeks. Full Story

Spanish television reported Wednesday that Spain&#039s two major political parties agreed to a united front against repeated “terrorism and violence,” which the parties said was being waged by Basque separatists. Full Story

Three assailants armed with assault rifles killed a white farmer and seriously wounded his son in violence linked to Zimbabwe&#039s disputed white-owned land, farmers&#039 leaders said Wednesday. Full Story

A series of clashes between Algerian security forces and Islamic militants has killed 38 people in Algeria this week, including 24 rebels, local media said on Wednesday. Full Story

Saudi Arabia has arrested a U.S. citizen in connection with two bomb attacks which killed a British engineer and wounded four Britons in Riyadh last month, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday. Full Story

Two U.N. military observers kidnapped in Georgia&#039s remote northwestern Kodori gorge were released on Wednesday, President Eduard Shevardnadze&#039s spokesman said. Full Story

The United States has closed its embassy in Qatar to the public for security reasons, along with its consulates in Istanbul and the eastern Turkish city of Adana, a State Department official said on Tuesday. U.S. government officials said the closure came due to specific threats, but amid a general increase in activity associated with…

Timothy McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop all appeals of his conviction in the Oklahoma City bombing and to set a date for his execution. In a federal court filing made public Tuesday, McVeigh said he wanted to waive further review of his case by the courts. However, he reserved the right to seek…

Hundreds of Kookmin Bank employers held their chairman hostage Wednesday in an attempt to block the announcement of a planned merger that they fear would lead to layoffs. Full Story

A car bomb exploded near a mosque in a Chechen village, killing at least 21 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the breakaway republic in weeks. Full Story

Colombia&#039s military, bracing for what could be one of its toughest battles yet, said on Tuesday it was prepared to retake a vast swath of territory ceded to Marxist rebels for peace talks two years ago. Full Story

The Greek group, November 17, has called the assassination of a British diplomat its “most important” operation in 25 years. Full Story

Angola&#039s UNITA rebels have recaptured the key diamond centre of Caombo in northern Malange province, western sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Full Story

Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian policemen in a gun battle in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, described by residents as one of the fiercest clashes in 11 weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Full Story

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced Tuesday a second rebel raid in as many weeks in southern Guinea and dispatched an envoy to the region to see what could be done to help stabilize the situation. Full Story

Cyberterrorism is real, said the speakers at a conference here on Monday on confronting online terrorism and anti-Semitism, and it is no longer child&#039s play. Full Story

Gunmen poised on a hill above Istanbul&#039s main highway raked a passing police bus with automatic weapons fire Monday, killing at least two officers and wounding several others. Full Story

A bomb carried by a man detained for threatening his ex-wife exploded at a police station in southwestern China, killing the man, his ex-wife, an officer and a bystander, police said Tuesday. Full Story

The United Nations declared global war on transnational crime Tuesday but warned that mafia groups were outstripping crime-fighters in their use of technology and the global markets. Full Story

A Serbian regional court found nine men guilty of kidnapping a war crimes suspect in Serbia who was later handed over to NATO peacekeepers in Bosnia, Serbia&#039s Beta news agency reported. Full Story

Negotiations to swap three Israeli soldiers and a reserve army colonel for 19 Arab captives have made significant progress with German mediation in contacts with Hizbollah guerrillas, security sources said on Monday. Full Story

A small Chechen village began burying its dead from a calculated bomb blast Sunday as Moscow tried to recover from another setback in the 14-month war against separatist rebels in the breakaway republic. Full Story

Two members of a U.N. observer mission were kidnapped Sunday in a breakaway province of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, officials said. Full Story

The Nation of Chad is war-torn, land-locked and destitute: Its average per capita income comes to just 55 cents daily. And yet, rather than help Chad fight illiteracy, high infant mortality rates or any of its other challenges, the international community may now have a duty to do the opposite. The government of President Idriss…

More than 30 cities across the country have joined with the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies to battle domestic terrorism, and Portland is right to join them. Full Story

A Muslim militant has confessed to planning terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in Jordan nearly a year ago, Jordanian government officials said Saturday. Full Story

Echoing warnings surrounding last year&#039s Y2K celebrations, US officials said yesterday that they are bracing for the possibility of new attacks timed to another New Year&#039s Eve. Full Story

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank Monday and an Arab boy died of wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire in an earlier incident, witnesses and hospital sources said. Full Story

Just days before President Clinton arrives in Northern Ireland, Britain&#039s minister for the province has warned of possible terrorist attacks there and on the British mainland, a newspaper said. Full Story