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

A car bomb killed 16 children and teenagers and injured 20 others in a village in Russia&#039s separatist Chechnya province on Saturday, a Kremlin official said. Full Story

Scores of people were killed in fighting this week between rebels and government troops in the Guinean border town of Gueckedou, officials and witnesses say. Full Story

One person was killed and nine injured, including five policemen, in a clash with suspected Maoist workers in Nepal, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place at Bharatpur, 87 miles south of Kathmandu, when an unidentified group attacked police officers searching for suspects who had manhandled a teacher to enforce a school strike,…

At least three people were killed in two nearly simultaneous explosions Friday in the southern Russian town of Pyatigorsk in the Stavropol region that neighbors separatist Chechnya, the emergencies ministry said, quoted by the Interfax news agency. Full Story

U.S. officials said Thursday there is evidence linking suspects in the October 12 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen with known operatives of accused terrorist Osama bin Laden&#039s organization. Full Story

Colombian President Andres Pastrana, seeking to preserve a faltering peace process at an important moment for his U.S.-backed anti-drug strategy, has agreed to maintain for two more months a demilitarized zone in the southern Colombian jungle that has been the venue for meetings with leftist guerrillas. Full Story

The U.S.S. Cole. Khobar Towers. Osama bin Laden. All of these names evoke the frightening specter of a wave of international terrorism aimed at the U.S. And in the post-Cold War world, terrorism may be the gravest global threat facing America today, many experts intone. Indeed, homeland defense — protecting what was thought for decades…

Palestinian gunmen shot dead a Jewish settler in the West Bank Friday as Israeli forces braced for intensified clashes with Palestinians marking the anniversary of a first uprising against Israeli occupation. Full Story

In his first declaration as the prospective commander in chief, Texas Gov. George W. Bush warned terrorists today against exploiting the country&#039s electoral uncertainty and said that as president he would “send a chilling signal to terrorists.” Full Story

Germany&#039s lower house of parliament agreed to apply for a ban on the tiny far-right NPD party Friday, adding political weight to an emotional issue that the country&#039s constitutional court will ultimately decide. Full Story

The Colombian government, in a bid to jump start stalled peace talks with Marxist rebels, said on Thursday it was nearing an agreement that would open the door to the first exchange of prisoners in the country&#039s long-running war. Full Story

Russia and United States joined forces on Thursday in calling for an arms embargo and other sanctions to force Afghanistan&#039s Taliban rulers to surrender Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Several Yemeni citizens suspected of helping to organize the suicide bombing of the USS Cole will be put on trial next month, the head of Yemen&#039s government said yesterday. Prime Minister Abdel-Karim Ali Iryani said the defendants, who have not been named, are being detained and will be given a public trial on charges of…

At 8:45 p.m. on Sept. 12, 1992, a special Peruvian police undercover unit captured Abimael Guzman, leader of the fanatical Maoist guerrilla group known as Shining Path, in his hideout on a quiet, middle-class street in Lima. The fall of one of the 20th century&#039s most elusive terrorists made headlines around the world and proved…

Six members of a Muslim fundamentalist cult were sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for their roles in an abortive attempt to overthrow Malaysia&#039s government. Full Story

Despite flagging support for his peace efforts, President Andres Pastrana opted today to give the nation&#039s largest rebel group an eight-week extension on the demilitarized zone that the government ceded to the rebels two years ago. Full Story

A fugitive charged with plotting terrorist attacks in the United States over the New Year&#039s holidays last winter has been quietly arrested in Algeria, Clinton administration officials said yesterday. Full Story

Several thousand activists aiming to stop a European Union summit on Thursday ran riot in the streets around the conference center, setting fire to a bank and daubing storefronts with revolutionary slogans. Full Story

Indonesian police arrested nearly 100 people on Thursday after two policemen and a civil servant were killed by a pro-independence mob in the restive province of Irian Jaya, the official Antara news agency reported. Full Story

Stephen Sestanovich, the U.S. State Department&#039s adviser on former Soviet republics, arrived in Uzbekistan Wednesday to hold talks with Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Komilov and other senior officials. Full Story

Five members of Algerian militant groups, including two leaders, were killed during clashes with Army forces security sources said Wednesday. Full Story

Interpol has issued a notice for the arrest of Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Pirabhakaran and two of his associates in connection with terrorist activities in Sri Lanka and India. Full Story

A Roman Catholic man was killed by Protestant gunmen in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, just days before President Clinton visits the British province in an attempt to help break a deadlock in the peace process. Full Story

Yemeni police have turned over to a prosecutor the names of six people suspected of complicity in the October 12 attack on the USS Cole, the prime minister said on Wednesday. Full Story

The Terrorism Research Center is pleased to provide this opportunity for our visitors to submit questions to author and adventurer Robert Young Pelton. Pelton is the author of “The World&#039s Most Dangerous Places”, a New York Time&#039s bestseller which is also considered one of the best open-source books detailing the world&#039s conflict zones. In fact,…

An employee of the Israeli embassy in Jordan has been shot and wounded in the leg in an incident in the capital, Amman. It is the second attack on an Israeli in Amman in the past three weeks. Full Story

Indian soldiers killed 12 suspected Islamic guerrillas Wednesday as they snuck across the line that divides the Himalayan province of Kashmir between India and Pakistan, an Indian official said. Full Story

One person has been killed and at least seven injured after home-made bombs were thrown into a Christian procession in Indonesia&#039s troubled Moluccan islands. Full Story

The target: terrorist nonpareil Osama bin Laden. The force: a Russian-American armada of helicopter gunships, combat aircraft, and special-forces commandos poised to strike bin Laden&#039s terrorist network deep inside Afghanistan. D-day: anytime. Reports of a joint U.S.-Russian offensive against bin Laden from bases in Central Asia swirled through the world&#039s press last week. The bold-sounding…

The United States bears some responsibility for the attack on the USS Cole because it helped create terrorists who consider America their enemy, Yemen&#039s foreign minister said Monday. Full Story

A U.S. citizen alleged to have close links to Islamic militant Osama bin Laden is a prime suspect in the suspected terrorist attack on the USS Cole in October, said U.S. sources, who told NBC News on Monday that Jaed Hijazi, who is in custody in Jordan, has also told investigators of plans to “attack…

A United Nations Security Council resolution that would impose a wide range of sanctions against Afghanistan&#039s Taliban regime has cleared a major hurdle. Full Story

A Muslim militant condemned to death for planning terror attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan has been extradited from Syria for another trial, judicial officials said Monday. Full Story

The United Nations Middle East envoy urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to urgently restart peace talks to avert the danger of a regional war after new violence flared in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Full Story

Clashes between separatists and security forces in Indonesia&#039s Aceh province have left at least 15 people dead, according to police. The violence came on the 24th anniversary of the launch of the province&#039s independence movement, which residents marked with prayers and by raising thousands of banned rebel flags. Full Story

The United Nations&#039 top human rights official said Monday that Colombia&#039s human rights situation is deteriorating and urged stronger government actions to stop right-wing paramilitary violence. Full Story

Protesters loyal to Muslim former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara fought police in Ivory Coast&#039s main city Abidjan Tuesday in a second day of pre-election violence in which at least 14 people have died. Full Story

A passenger and a crew member on a Sabena flight from Brussels were injured when the plane was hit by machinegun fire as it approached Burundi&#039s capital Bujumbura, the airline said Tuesday. Full Story

An unusual number of terrorist incidents have erupted in Saudi Arabia over the past four months, targeting Westerners there. Full Story

The United States itself bears some responsibility for the attack on the USS Cole because it helped create the terrorists who now consider America their worst enemy, Yemen&#039s foreign minister said Monday. Full Story

Three people were killed and several wounded in separate attacks in the revolt-racked Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, police said. Full Story

Jordanian officials said Monday they will retry a U.S. citizen convicted and sentenced to death in connection with a terrorist plot against Israeli and American tourists in Jordan during New Year&#039s celebrations. Full Story

A senior Russian city official and his daughter were injured on Monday when their car exploded in St. Petersburg, an Emergencies Ministry spokesman said. Full Story

Heavy gunbattles raged overnight in what the Israeli army said was an apparent attempt by Palestinian gunmen to take over an Israeli enclave in Bethlehem. Full Story

Indonesian security forces occupied the headquarters of a group pushing for Irian Jaya&#039s independence and made dozens of arrests on Sunday, the provincial police chief said. The pre-dawn raid followed deadly clashes between security forces and separatists in the province. Full Story