The efforts of the United States to get terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden amount to murder attempts, a senior leader of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia said Monday. Full Story

Spanish authorities are once more promising a tough response to guerrilla violence after the Basque separatist group ETA injured four people with a car bomb outside the home of a ruling party senator in the Basque region. Full Story

A three-day standoff inside a suburban home ended Monday with the death of a hostage and the suicide of the murder suspect who began the ordeal, police said. Full Story

A fire under investigation by federal authorities as possible eco-terrorism fits a pattern of similar acts around the country, an expert said. Full Story

The fourth bomb blast in two weeks has rocked the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing at least one man, residents said on Sunday. The bomb went off late on Saturday night beneath a small bookshop near several government buildings of the ruling Taleban movement, they said. Shopkeepers near the blast said the victim…

Attackers threw a petrol bomb at the wall of a mosque in the northern German town of Uetersen on Saturday, police said. No-one was injured in the firebombing, which took place in the early hours of the morning and caused minor damage to the wall of the mosque, a police spokesman said. Full Story

Australia will lay on the best security in the world for international dignitaries here for the Olympics in September, New South Wales state Police Commissioner Peter Ryan promised Monday. Full Story

A hand grenade exploded near a railway track in southwestern Pakistan, injuring three people, police said Monday. Full Story

An armed ex-convict wanted in the slaying of a store clerk and the wounding of a sheriff&#039s deputy released two of five hostages he was holding in a home near Orlando, police said on Sunday. Full Story

Five people linked to extremist groups in the Middle East, Europe and Asia have been deported from Australia in a nationwide security sweep ahead of the Sydney Olympics in September, a major newspaper reported on Monday. Full Story

British police said on Monday they had seized a large quantity of firearms and explosives in a raid on a house in the southwest English port city of Plymouth. Full Story

A sacked Chinese worker detonated a bag of explosives in his former employer&#039s office, killing himself and 10 others, state media said on Monday. Full Story

Michael Stone, one of Northern Ireland&#039s most ruthless guerrillas, was freed early from prison Monday under an accord intended to cement the British province&#039s uneasy peace process. Full Story

U.S. Federal agents arrested 17 alleged supporters of the Hizbollah guerrilla group in raids in North Carolina and Michigan on Friday, accusing them of trafficking in contraband cigarettes to raise funds for the anti-Israeli Islamist organization. Full Story

The German foreign ministry confirmed Thursday the “highly probable kidnapping” by Muslim separatists of a German national in Indian Kashmir. Full Story

A subway-station bomb – believed to have been planted by a dissident Irish group – reduced key sections of London to gridlock yesterday and raised fears of renewed terrorist attacks on the British mainland. Full Story

Combating Terrorism: Action Taken but Considerable Risks Remain for Forces Overseas. Full Report

A 36-year-old former National Guard pilot was arrested Thursday and charged with attempting to plant bombs on a Wisconsin military base in an incident that appeared to be aimed at U.S. involvement in Kosovo, officials said. Milan Mititch of Milwaukee was arrested at his home following a tip, according to Barry Babler, a spokesman for…

Renegade republican groups are posing a serious threat on both sides of the Irish Sea, security sources said Thursday after a bomb was found in London. The “Real IRA,” still a small offshoot of the mainstream Irish Republican Army but flexing its muscles in Northern Ireland, is opposed to the IRA”s cease-fire and current peace…

Four teenage German skinheads confessed Thursday to carrying out a petrol bomb attack that injured three Kosovo children at a hostel for asylum seekers, police said. Full Story

Officers of the Chief Anti-Organised Crime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry and of the Federal Security Service prevented on Wednesday a number of major acts of terrorism in several cities in the European part of Russia, a spokesman for the press service of the Anti-Organised Crime Department told Tass. Full Story

After a brief absence, David Tubbs is involved again in the Olympic security effort. Full Story

Two live bombs were found at a Wisconsin Air National Guard base Wednesday after an intruder who had scrawled graffiti protesting U.S. involvement in Kosovo was chased away, the FBI said. Full Story

A Socialist politician escaped a failed car bombing Wednesday just hours after an explosion tore through a shopping center as Spaniards faced escalating violence blamed on radical Basque separatists. Full Story

U.S. forces around the world remain vulnerable to terrorist attack despite improvements made after a truck bomb killed 19 Americans at a U.S. military complex in Saudi Arabia four years ago, congressional investigators reported Wednesday. Full Story

Police have confirmed a bomb was planted near a London Underground station as parts of the capital are brought to a standstill by a series of security alerts. A coded warning led police to a package on the line near Ealing Broadway tube station and they sealed off the area and carried out a controlled…

A bomb has exploded in a shopping centre in the Basque capital of Vitoria, causing severe damage but no injuries. Full Story

Fiji&#039s political crisis deepened Wednesday with the prime minister and nationalist rebels squabbling over a delay in the swearing in of a new government and a report of a possible breakaway administration. Full Story

Ambassador Michael Sheehan, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Testimony Before the House International Relations Committee, Washington, DC, July 12, 2000. Full Testimony

For the first time, an Afghan leader has criticized Osama Bin Laden as the United States has launched an effort to capture the Saudi fugitive billionaire. Full Story

Russia and the People&#039s Republic of China will “take active and concrete measures on the bilateral and multilateral basis” for fighting national separatism, international terrorism, religious extremism and transnational crime, says the Beijing Declaration, which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the People&#039s Republic of China Jiang Zemin on Tuesday. Full…

Mulla Mohammad Omar, chief of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia has again rejected the expulsion of alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden, and any Pakistani role to end the stalemate, a report here said Saturday. Full Story

Khalil Deek is either one of the world’s most dangerous men —a close friend of terrorist financier Osama bin Laden—or a naive computer geek whose religious beliefs and social connections led overzealous authorities to mistake him for an Islamic terrorist. Full Story

An Algerian suspected of links to an alleged bombing plot in the United States waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday and will go to New York for trial. Full Story

Today is the fourth anniversary of one of the most mysterious, tragic and controversial air crashes in U.S. history — the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, which killed 230 passengers and crew. Full Story

Greeks observed an unprecedented nationwide minute of silence against terrorism Wednesday, part of a government-sponsored publicity campaign to fight a menace that has plagued the country for 25 years. Full Story

A car bomb rocked central Madrid just before dawn on Wednesday, injuring nine people in the latest attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Full Story

Elderly US aid worker Mary MacMakin has been released after four days of detention in Afghanistan for alleged spying, the US embassy in Pakistan said Wednesday. Full Story

A panel of experts debated bioterrorism&#039s threat to the United States during a public discussion at Dartmouth&#039s Thayer School of Engineering last Friday evening, raising scientific and political issues and reaching no firm conclusions. Full Story

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Iran was responsible for a terrorist bombing in Israel that killed an American couple and awarded their relatives $327 million. Full Story

Apparently realizing that it already has more captives than it can handle, the Abu Sayyaf appealed to government negotiators yesterday to resume the stalled negotiations for the freedom of the hostages. Full Story

Lawmen safely detonated the other day two powerful explosives planted inside the North Cotabato provincial capitol in Kidapawan City, just as President Estrada was raising the Philippine flag at Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao. Full Story

The buildings looked alike even before the bombs shattered them–tan and black fortresses of poured concrete that housed U.S. government offices. But in Oklahoma City, the terrorists killed only Americans. In Nairobi, almost all who died were Africans. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military said on Wednesday the overnight release of nine hostages was a positive sign that the country&#039s eight-week political crisis was heading for a resolution. Full Story

A car bomb rocked central Madrid before dawn on Wednesday, injuring nine people in the latest attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Full Story

The Algerian press currently enjoys greater freedom of tone, accompanied by the creation of new titles, and there are over 30 dailies in existence today. The authorities try, however, to curb this freedom by economic and legal means. Certain sympathies in Algerian society are rarely or never found in the country&#039s main news media. Full…

Further Orange Order protests and associated violence are expected in Northern Ireland today and tonight on the eve of the Twelfth celebrations. Full Story

Spanning the Rio Grande flood plains from the Mexican industrial town of Reynosa, to Pharr, Texas, is a new four-lane bridge where hundreds of trucks queue day and night to transport Mexican-made goods into the United States. Full Story

The supreme leader of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban said the Islamic militia was monitoring and restricting the movements of Osama bin Laden and denied the Saudi-born terrorist had training camps in Afghanistan. Full Story

The first defendant to stand trial in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa pleaded innocent on Monday to a charge of housing five men suspected in the attack. Full Story

It is only a matter of time. Consider the possibility of waking to the news one morning that a terrorist squad has planted a nuclear device somewhere in your city and is threatening to detonate it. Is this scenario plausible? The answer is definitely yes. Full Story

The federal government is working on a plan to protect the Washington Monument from terrorists by using a circle of spaced metal bollards or a barrier of some other design to prevent vehicles from approaching it. Full Story

Terrorists may be returning to hijacking tactics of the 70s. India&#039s surrender to hijackers last year is seen as setting a bad precedent. Full Story

Hooded gunmen walked into a hospital in the Solomon Islands capital today and shot dead two patients, witnesses said, in the latest attack in the Pacific nation&#039s deadly ethnic dispute. Full Story

Extremists holding 37 hostages in the southern Philippine island of Jolo have kidnapped three French television journalists covering the 12-week hostage crisis, a senior provincial government source and their colleague said today. Full Story

Crack Georgian commandos overnight Sunday shot dead a renegade colonel who once sought to overthrow President Eduard Shevardnadze, as a hostage drama ended in blood, the interior ministry said. Full Story

Reports from Algeria say fourteen people have been killed and seven kidnapped in weekend attacks blamed on armed Islamist groups. Full Story

Protestant hard-liners hurled stones at police and set hijacked vehicles ablaze in Northern Ireland overnight in new protests against a ban on a march through a Roman Catholic area, witnesses said on Monday. Full Story

An explosion took place in the prayer hall of a church in J J Nagar in the city on Sunday night, police said. Full Story

Two bombs exploded at an outdoor food market and a department store in southern Russia on Sunday, killing six people and wounding 16 others. Full Story