The 30-year reign of a woman dubbed the &#039&#039empress&#039&#039 for her long leadership of one of the world&#039s most notorious extremist groups ended on Wednesday with her capture outside a hotel in western Japan. Full Story

Following is a chronology of major incidents involving members of the Japanese Red Army. Chronology

A bomb ripped through the editorial offices of a Russian-language business magazine based in the eastern Latvian city of Daugavpils, the Baltic News Service reported Wednesday. Full Story

The Lockerbie trial was paralyzed Tuesday as the defense sought more time to investigate new evidence relating to Palestinian terrorists initially suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Full Story

A high-profile kidnap drama, staged by Colombia&#039s right-wing paramilitary warlord to press for a role in peace talks between the government and Marxist rebels, ended peacefully on Tuesday with the release of six captive lawmakers, authorities said. Full Story

Senior Yemeni officials denied Tuesday accusations that government officials from their nation aided in the attack on the USS Cole. Published reports in the region said Yemeni government officials provided a car to the bombers in the October 12 attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors. Full Story

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#039s centre-left government decided to ask the country&#039s highest court to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) for its suspected link to extremist violence, the government press office said. Full Story

Today we elect the next President of the United States. This person will inherit many of the same national security threats that bedeviled the Clinton Administration. However, the next President will also face a unique opportunity to craft a 21st Century policy to fight terrorism–a policy that recognizes the reality of terrorism in the context…

Israeli Navy announced Tuesday that preliminary investigation showed that a failed bombing attempt on an Israeli Navy vessel off the Gaza coast overnight was apparently a suicide bomb attack. Full Story

Yemeni officials have detained and questioned nine people in connection with the explosion that damaged the USS Cole, Yemeni sources told CNN on Tuesday. Full Story

The trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing resumes with new evidence allegedly linking the downing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland with a Palestinian group and the Balkans. Full Story

India&#039s highest court on Tuesday squarely rejected a move by two southern states to release the comrades of a notorious forest bandit who has held a movie star captive for 100 days. Full Story

Spanish police arrested five suspected members of ETA on Tuesday in a government attempt to fight back against the Basque separatist group&#039s bloodiest offensive in recent years. Full Story

Four men who police have linked to an ongoing bombing campaign in Cape Town appeared in court Monday to face charges including attempted murder. Full Story

A member of an ETA unit threatened a Spanish judge again on Monday, saying in a letter the judge would “pay” for his actions against the Basques, authorities said. Full Story

The tree-lined Villa de Paris plaza is a peaceful little oasis in hectic Madrid, its playground swings and slides attracting dozens of children and their parents each day. Full Story

Five years after he assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Jewish extremist Yigal Amir said Monday he would do it all over again. Full Story

Iraq has granted asylum to two Saudis who hijacked a London-bound Saudi plane last month and surrendered in Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said Monday. Full Story

A Swede linked to a Palestinian guerrilla group said in a newspaper interview published on Monday that he had been called to testify at the trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing. Full Story

Four men have been arrested and are being questioned about last month&#039s bombing in Yemen that killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole, sources close to the investigation told The Associated Press on Monday. Full Story

A car bomb exploded Monday in Chechnya&#039s second- largest city, narrowly missing a pro-Moscow official known for her strong anti-rebel stance, an official said. Full Story

Four men arrested over the past two days are being questioned about the fatal bombing of the USS Cole last month, sources close to the investigation said Monday. Full Story

At least three people were killed and five injured when a bomb exploded inside a media group&#039s building in this troubled Pakistani port city, police and hospital sources said. Full Story

A Greek gunman arrested Saturday evening after hijacking a busload of Japanese tourists in southern Greece jumped to his death Sunday from a police building, Japanese embassy officials said. Full Story

Not a single republic of the Commonwealth of Independent States, including those in Central Asia, can cope, single-handed, with the threat of international terrorism, religious extremism and other new geopolitical challenges of the 21st century. Full Story

A home-made bomb exploded outside a tax office in Athens on Sunday causing serious damage, police said. Full Story

The Sri Lankan army claimed Saturday that 62 Tamil Tiger rebels had been killed in a week of aerial and naval attacks in the island&#039s northeast. Full Story

A chronology of events in Saturday&#039s hijacking of a tour bus. Chronology

Chanting “Death to America,” thousands of Iranians took to the streets outside the former US embassy here Friday to mark the anniversary of its 1979 seizure in the wake of the Islamic revolution. Full Story

Israel blanketed Jerusalem in heavy security and set tough limits on attendance at Muslim prayers on Friday after a car bombing revived Israeli fears of a wave of attacks by Islamic militants. Full Story

The Basque group ETA&#039s renewed offensive this year – the most violent since 1992 with 19 assassinations so far – for the first time has made terrorism the major concern for Spaniards, the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) revealed Thursday. Full Story

Hours after a car bomb killed two Israelis in downtown Jerusalem and two Palestinians died after street clashes in the West Bank, officials of both sides said they remained committed to a cease-fire agreement but issued conflicting statements about what that meant. Full Story

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan William Milam has informed the Taliban that Washington is ready for holding suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden&#039s trial in a third country, a Pakistani newspaper reported Friday. Full Story

The thorny issue of alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden dominated talks Thursday between a U.S. diplomat and a representative of the ruling militia of Afghanistan, where bin Laden lives, officials said. Full Story

As a car bomb killed two Israelis in central Jerusalem today, Israel and the Palestinians said they were still planning to implement a truce agreement aimed at ending the violence that has killed at least 179 people over the past five weeks. Full Story

Police say at least two people were killed Thursday when a bomb exploded at the Machane Yehuda market in central Jerusalem, just hours after Israel and the Palestinians agreed to steps aimed at ending more than a month of violence. Full Story

The separatist group ETA is forcing business owners in Spain&#039s Basque country to pay a “revolutionary tax”, the president of a group of Basque businessmen said Thursday. Full Story

A blast that appeared to have been caused by a bomb tore through an apartment in a Moscow suburb, killing a man, police said Thursday. Full Story

Two suspects in the U.S. Embassy bombings being held at a federal facility allegedly attacked a corrections officer, leaving him in critical condition. Full Story

A car bomb exploded in central Barcelona early on Thursday, injuring two people, in the second attack in Spain this week linked to the Basque separatist group ETA. Full Story

C-4, an advanced plastic explosive, was used in the attack on the USS Cole, according to Yemen&#039s prime minister and sources close to the U.S. investigation. Full Story

Mosques across Afghanistan and Pakistan prepare for special prayers coming Friday, the Muslim holiday when thousands gather in every neighborhood to seek help from God. “This Friday we will seek God&#039s help to protect our brother Osama bin Laden and others in Afghanistan from an American attack,” says Qari Khalilur Rahman who leads Friday prayers…

A notorious right-wing paramilitary leader said Wednesday that he was holding seven lawmakers hostage and would release them only if the government gets tougher in peace talks with leftist guerrillas. Full Story

The killing of a Protestant man, a bomb attack on a police station and new political squabbles put fresh pressure on Northern Ireland&#039s already strained peace process on Wednesday. Full Story

Iran&#039s parliament voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow courts to impose punitive damages on the United States for “terrorist” acts. The move comes after the U.S. government agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to victims of what Washington calls Iranian “state-sponsored terrorism”. Full Story

A bomb attack blamed by police on “republican terrorists,&#039&#039 internecine Protestant killings and political squabbling kept Northern Ireland&#039s peace process under pressure Wednesday. Full Story

A retired pilot has apparently been arrested by Jordanian police in connection with two bomb hoaxes that forced flights operated by Royal Jordanian Airlines to make emergency landings on Monday (30 October). Full Story

The U.S. and Yemeni governments are in the midst of “trying to hammer out a written agreement” on a broad range of issues relating to the investigation of the October 12 attack on the USS Cole, two administration sources told CNN. Full Story

Defense lawyers requested another delay in the Lockerbie bombing trial Tuesday to investigate new information that could reveal who manufactured and planted the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103. Full Story

Two bombs were thrown at a Northern Ireland police station early Wednesday, injuring one officer, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said. Full Story

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid Tuesday in outrage at the killing of three people in the bloodiest attack blamed on Basque separatists ETA since a truce ended last year. Full Story

This ran separately as a three-part series on Oct. 28. The British government has announced sweeping new powers to compel law firms, banks and financial institutions like credit card companies to help stop money laundering and financial transactions that could finance Northern Ireland terror groups. Full Story

The United States is close to convincing the U.N. Security Council to step up sanctions against Afghanistan&#039s Taliban faction until it hands over terrorist financier Osama bin Laden for trial in the United States, says the State Department&#039s counter-terrorism chief. Full Story

President Clinton and the State Department&#039s top terrorism official are urging Yemen to give U.S. investigators more access to witnesses, suspects and evidence in the bombing of the USS destroyer Cole in Aden harbor. Full Story

Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has been leading Spaniards in mourning a judge and his chauffeur killed in the bloodiest attack blamed on ETA since the Basque separatist group ended a truce last year. Full Story

U.S. forces and diplomatic personnel in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have been placed on their highest level of alert, raising to five the number of Persian Gulf countries covered by an order that means a terrorist attack is considered likely, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Full Story

Concerns about a possible terrorist threat in the Suez Canal have prompted a ban on U.S. Navy vessels using the waterway, a decision that will extend the USS Cole&#039s journey back to the United States. Full Story

The investigation of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen is focused on Osama bin Laden, but no evidence has yet been found directly linking him to the terrorist attack, Defense Secretary William Cohen said Monday. Full Story

Two Royal Jordanian planes were victims of bomb hoaxes and forced to make emergency landings late Monday, Transport Minister Saleh Rsheidat said Tuesday. Full Story

European Commission President Romano Prodi condemned on Tuesday the car bomb attack that killed a Spanish supreme court judge in Madrid and urged the Spanish people not to surrender to “terror and extortion.” Full Story