Reports from Algeria say ten Islamist militants and eleven government soldiers have been killed in operations against the rebels east of the capital, Algiers. Full Story

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa&#039alu, who is being held at gunpoint by militiamen, offered to resign Tuesday but only at a meeting of parliament, one of his government ministers said. Full Story

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Adeli denied reports that Tehran wants to destabilize Turkey through a series of political killings amid allegations that Iran plotted the bombing of a Pan-Am jet in 1988 which killed 270 people. Full Story

Greece Monday rejected a U.S. congressional report on terrorism asek&#039s inter-Kor unacceptable. report published by the U.S. daily “Washingtested the traton e National Committee on Terrorism proposed sanctions against Greece because Athens was not cooperating fully in combating terrorism. Full Story

The threat of terror attacks against domestic targets in the United States has grown and the government needs to do more to guard against potentially devastating incidents like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a congressionally appointed panel said in a report on Monday. Full Story

A key member of Japan&#039s doomsday cult accused of a fatal 1995 gas attack on Tokyo subways was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for a total of 10 related crimes, including murder. Full Story

This time last year, hundreds of Pakistani Army regulars and trained militants were discovered entrenched deep inside the high mountain peaks of the Kargil area in India&#039s state of Jammu and Kashmir. The three-month, high-intensity conflict that ensued between the two nuclear-armed states shocked the world into realizing that a post-cold- war nuclear exchange remained…

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Government forces shot dead at least seven Tamil Tiger guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka as President Chandrika Kumaratunga said the rebels had again rejected peace talks. Full Story

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Sunday that concerns about “terrorism&#039&#039 will not lead to sanctions against Greece and Pakistan, no matter what a new congressional report may say. Full Story

Rebels in Fiji rejected a demand by the military to lay down their arms and release 30 politicians held since May 19 and said they would wait as long as it takes to achieve their goals. Full Story

French anti-terrorist authorities have taken over the probe into an apparently deliberate train derailment that killed two people and injured 25 over the weekend, judicial sources said on Monday. Full Story

The accusations made by an Iranian defector implicating Tehran in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing are “a plot doomed to failure, ” Iranian television said Monday. Full Story

US investigators ordered a record number of secret wiretaps in spying and terrorism investigations in 1999, USA Today reported Monday. Full Story

Armed rebels have taken the Solomon Islands&#039 prime minister hostage in an apparent coup attempt. New Zealand&#039s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman Brad Pattersfield said insurgents from the Malaita Eagle Force militia were holding Prime Minister Bartholemew Ulufa&#039alua hostage. Full Story

Australian and international intelligence agencies are increasingly alarmed at the emergence throughout South and South-East Asia of terrorist groups linked to Osama bin Laden, amid new evidence that the multi-millionaire Saudi extremist has bought biological weapons from a former Soviet state. Full Story

A blue-ribbon commission is urging the federal government to take more aggressive steps to prevent terrorism, including monitoring all foreign students in the United States, loosening restrictions on the CIA and threatening sanctions against such friendly states as Greece and Pakistan. Full Story Additional Stories – CNN, Fox News, LA Times, ABC News, CAIR Response

A man who said he coordinated most of Iran&#039s terror operations of the last decade claimed responsibility for two major attacks on the United States, the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 and the Khobar Towers bombing, “60 Minutes” reported Sunday. Full Story

At least 14 people, including five Indian soldiers and three policemen, were killed in the latest gunbattles and guerrilla attacks in troubled Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. Full Story

The foreign affairs spokesman of Britain&#039s opposition Conservative Party on Sunday accused Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe of using state-sponsored terrorism to undermine the opposition before upcoming elections. Full Story

A man was being held on Sunday after a train derailed overnight just south of Lyon, killing two people and injuring 15, police said. Full Story

An Algerian man suspected of links to an alleged international plot to blow up U.S. buildings will be handed over to immigration authorities for probable deportation, the Seattle Times said in an online report on Friday. Full Story

Eight people were killed and 11 others, including a former minister, were injured in a bomb attack as Moslem separatist guerrillas stepped up attacks in India&#039s northern state of Kashmir. Full Story

The United States is interested in broader cooperation with Russia to fight terrorism. This problem will be discussed during U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen&#039s visit to Moscow early this June, a high-ranking official of the Pentagon stated on Thursday on condition of anonymity. Full Story

The United States has recently increased pressure on both the Taliban and Pakistan to expel terrorism-suspect Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan, diplomatic sources said Thursday. Last week US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Thomas Pickering, met senior offcicials of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban militia during his two-day visit to Islamabad and urged them to…

The murder of the security adviser to pro-Western Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic sent shock waves through the volatile Yugoslav republic Thursday. Full Story

Opposition leader Vicente Fox said in a newspaper interview on Friday that Mexico could face “disorder and turbulence” if the government tried to rig the outcome of next month&#039s presidential election. Fox, leader of Mexico&#039s centre-right National Action Party (PAN), is running neck-and-neck with the ruling party candidate ahead of the July 2 vote. He…

Georgian security services said early Friday that five people including two UN military observers had gone missing in Georgia&#039s breakaway Black Sea region of Abkhazia, but added it would be premature to say they had been taken hostage. Full Story

Three crew members hijacked a commuter boat, opening fire on fellow crew and passengers – killing at least five of them – and throwing women, children and an elderly man into shark-infested waters. Full Story

A man was shot and injured by Fiji&#039s military late on Friday during unrest near the Parliament building where more than 30 politicians have been held hostage for two weeks. Full Story

A bomb exploded on a London bridge Thursday and police had to return to the scene to investigate a suspect package amid fears that Irish republican guerrillas may be targeting the British capital. The blast shortly before dawn caused no injuries and only slight damage to Hammersmith Bridge in the west of the capital, but…

Security has been tightened at all PLA barracks and mainland institutions after a warning from Beijing that Xinjiang separatists are planning a terrorist attack. Full Story

Afghanistan is posing a threat to stability and destabilising the situation in the whole Central Asian region, OSCE acting chairman-in-office Benita Ferrero- Waldner said. Full Story

A small bomb exploded early Thursday beneath the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames River in London, but no injuries were reported, police said. Full Story

A car bomb blast Thursday in the Georgian capital, Tbilissi killed the brother of the country&#039s Defence Minister and seriously wounded his wife and another Georgian official, a security ministry spokesman said. Full Story

Manila on Thursday rejected foreign criticism it was dragging its heels in ending a 40-day foreign hostage saga, warning other nations not to meddle. Full Story

Forces loyal to Sierra Leone&#039s President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah prepared on Thursday to strike back at rebels who inflicted a serious battlefield reverse with the recapture of the strategic town of Lunsar. Full Story

The United States and Russia can do much in a joint struggle against international terrorism, Deputy US Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said in an interview with Itar-Tass, ahead of the US-Russian summit in Moscow. Full Story

Hezbollah may have become more of a problem for Yasser Arafat than it is for Ehud Barak. With the Iran-backed guerrilla army playing responsible guardian of border stability in the wake of Israel&#039s withdrawal from south Lebanon, Barak can focus his attention and political momentum on the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Full Story

Upwind of a million people at a future Detroit Freedom Festival fireworks, a crop dusting plane drops a deadly veil of anthrax spores. Days later, the first of hundreds of thousands of victims complains to doctors of fever, cough and lethargy. More than 100,000 die. Full Story

A heavily armed man holding 23 children and three adults hostage in a daycare center in eastern Luxembourg has demanded to be flown to Libya, Luxembourg&#039s Interior Minister Michel Wolter said Wednesday. Full Story

A man armed with a pistol, hand grenade and knife took hostage at least 20 nursery school children and their two teachers in a school in eastern Luxembourg Wednesday, police said. Full Story

News of another outbreak of religious violence in Maluku, in which at least 50 people died, has sparked fears that sectarianism may spread, particularly as it is claimed that the security forces are unable to prevent or control the conflict. Full Story

Insurgents of the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have kidnapped four persons in separate incidents in the state, police said on Wednesday. Full Story

Several people have been arrested on suspicion that they took part in setting off a home-made bomb near a cantonment in Volgograd, which claimed the lives of Privates Vladimir Gorbachev and Dmitri Shipovsky (he died of wounds at about mid-day). 15 soldiers were wounded. Officers of the regional police department, which put into effect the…

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) secretary general Ezzedine Laraki is to visit the Philippines to help persuade Muslim rebels to free 21 mostly foreign hostages they have been holding for nearly six weeks, Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said Wednesday. Full Story

A top Russian official was killed and at least one soldier died in separate bomb attacks, Russian media reported Wednesday. Full Story

The National Security Council of Turkey decided on Tuesday to continue crackdown upon terrorist groups and organized crimes to defend the country&#039s democratic and secular system. Full Story

Israeli troops escorting a convoy of Israeli cars in the Gaza Strip foiled an apparent attempt to blow up the vehicles near a Jewish settlement late Tuesday, Israel Radio said. Full Story

When it emerged less than a decade ago, the World Wide Web was quickly embraced as a bright new medium that could help reinvent government and revitalize democracy. But gradually government policy-makers have also seen that the Web has a much darker side. Full Story

The leader of Hezbollah said today that its guerrillas would not disarm despite the Israeli army&#039s withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Full Story

Since there has been war, there has been an understanding that military engagement leads to the death of soldiers and, more often than not, civilians. But the emergence of the US as a lone and unquestioned superpower is leading to a new concept: that US forces can engage an enemy and protect their homeland without…

If terrorists decide to attack Ohio&#039s capital city, local police and firefighters will be better prepared — or at least properly attired — thanks to a $300,000 federal grant. The Franklin County commissioners yesterday accepted the money from the U.S. Justice Department. It will be used to better equip the sheriff&#039s office and some township…

There is no escaping the conclusion that the unilateral withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon is a victory for Hezbollah, a group synonymous with terrorism in much of the West. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military rulers bowed on Tuesday to coup leader George Speight and scrapped a constitution that had allowed an ethnic Indian to become prime minister for the first time in the country&#039s history. Full Story

Russian-U.S. interaction in ensuring mutual and international security has been discussed here by Valentin Sobolev, deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF), and a visiting U.S. Senate delegation comprising Richard Shelby, Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senators Ernest Hollings and Richard Bryan, an SCRF press service official told…

‘- Indonesia&#039s government and beleaguered rupiah were shaken again Tuesday by reports of another religious massacre in the bloodied spice islands and the resignation of a top aide to President Abdurrahman Wahid. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military has declared martial law and rebels holding about 30 politicians hostage said on Tuesday they could soon release Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and most of his government. Full Story

In North Korea, a dozen U.S. arms experts began their second annual inspection of a mysterious tunnel complex. In Moscow, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott haggled with Russian officials over amending a 28-year-old arms agreement. In Washington, Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush made a strong pitch for a still unproven global missile defense…

A second blast in two days rocked the western city of Medan, while in neighboring Aceh Province three people were killed in the latest round of violence, security officials said Monday. Full Story