A Montreal woman once at the center of an international terrorist conspiracy investigation has been sentenced in Vermont on two felony alien smuggling charges. Full Story

An armed gang massacred and then beheaded 11 members of a family in a remote region of Nicaragua&#039s Caribbean coast, leaving their heads impaled on fence posts, the police said. Full Story

Israeli soldiers shot and wounded 12 Palestinians on Saturday during a second Palestinian &#039&#039day of rage,&#039&#039 witnesses said. Full Story

Negotiators held talks on Saturday with Muslim rebels holding 21 mostly foreign hostages in the Philippines and won agreement for more detailed discussions within the next few days, one of the envoys said. Full Story

Fiji Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry faced a second night under armed guard on Saturday after reportedly being ordered beaten by a failed businessman holding him and cabinet ministers hostage in the national parliament. Full Story

Germany today condemned terrorist attacks in India and favoured return to the Lahore process for an Indo-Pak dialogue to find solutions to the problems between the two nations. Full Story

The Union Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, today said the Government was examining the draft bill, prepared by the Law Commission, with a view to replacing the elapsed Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). Full Story

Brig. Gen. Bruce M. Lawlor knows this: Within the next several days, three U.S. cities will be attacked by terrorists using chemical or biological weapons. Full Story

Persistent investigators in Birmingham, Ala., have done the nation a favor: Their arrest of two former Klansmen for a 1963 church bombing in which four young girls died is a reminder that there can be no statute of limitations in the fight against hatemongering and terrorism. Full Story

Three people, including a child, were wounded in Srinagar when a rocket was fired by suspected separatists in what police believe was an attempt to target the state&#039s legislative assembly building. Full Story

Nikolai Patrushev, Director of Russia&#039s Federal Security Service (FSB), stated here on Friday after his meeting with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev that practical proposals on the establishment of a common anti-terrorist centre of the Commonwealth of Independent States (VIS) are to be presented to CIS Heads of State in June. The proposals have been drawn…

Uzbek President Islam Karimov Friday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to defend his Central Asian state from the threat of Islamic extremism and international terrorism. Full Story

The Shiite Muslim Hezbollah guerrilla group said one of its men had been killed in an Israeli air raid Thursday, on a day when nine people including five civilians and a UN peacekeeper were wounded in heavy fighting in southern Lebanon. Full Story

Two bombs exploded today in a department store in the center of Estonia&#039s capital, injuring four people, police said. Full Story

Coup leader George Speight has hit out at President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara for declaring a state of emergency. He told a presss conference a few minutes ago that the President should listen to what he says “are the wishes of the indigenous Fijians”. Speight also claims support of the military. This has not been…

`The primary terrorist threats to the United States,&#039&#039 reports the State Department in its latest survey of global terrorism, &#039&#039emanate from two regions, South Asia and the Middle East.&#039&#039Full Story

Armed men took over Fiji&#039s parliament in Suva Friday morning, locking Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and other cabinet ministers in upstairs chambers, Australian Broadcasting Corp radio reported. Full Story

Explosions tore through a fish market and a restaurant today, killing at least five people and wounding more than 50 in the southern Philippines near where Muslim rebels hold 21 Western and Asian hostages, authorities said. Full Story

Scanning the Spring 2000 news from Russia&#039s North Caucasus region might suggest that terrorism and insurgency there are on the run: Chechen resistance leader Shamil Basayev lost a leg to a mine while fleeing a Russian assault; Chechen &#039president&#039 Aslan Maskhadov and Chechen Mujahedin leader Ibn al-Khattab are at large; and Chechen warlord Salman Raduyev…

President Clinton announced a plan today to invest an additional $300 million in critical programs to strengthen the Nation&#039s counterterrorism efforts. Full Story

The Kafkafa security prison sits high on a summit among the craggy hills of northern Jordan. It&#039s visiting hour, and Khalil Deek is smiling broadly through an iron-mesh screen dividing prisoners from their families. “Thank you for taking an interest in the case,” he says, fingering his bushy black beard. The “case” places Deek, a…

President Clinton today accused the terror network allegedly operated by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden of plotting to harm Americans gathered for millennium celebrations. Full Story

A bomb exploded Wednesday inside an upscale shopping mall in Manila&#039s financial district, injuring at least 10 people, officials said. Full Story

Muslim rebels holding 21 hostages in the Philippines have demanded two million dollars to free a sick German hostage, Philippines Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said Wednesday. Full Story

At least 23 people were killed and more than 50 injured, many shot by security forces, in fresh sectarian violence in Ambon in Indonesia&#039s Maluku islands, reports and residents said here Wednesday. Full Story

Cheering crowds filled the streets of Freetown Wednesday as rebel leader Foday Sankoh was captured and his rebels began freeing the last of 500 UN peacekeepers taken hostage two weeks ago. Full Story

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Audio tapes and a transcript released Tuesday provide new insight into the final, dramatic moments of doomed EgyptAir Flight 990 — but they do not shed light on the cause of the airline crash that claimed 217 lives. Full Story

Two terrorist groups, Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been waging war in the southern Philippines since early March 2000. This special edition of the ERRI Weekly Summary of International Terrorism contains the latest information surrounding the conflict, including recent intelligence profiles of the main terrorist groups and a…

Federal regulators plan to limit the amount of online information available on chemical disasters to keep terrorists and other criminals from accessing it. Full Story

Hostages held by Islamic rebels in the southern Philippines have spoken to their families for the first time since their capture 24 days ago, but there appeared to be little hope for their early release. Full Story

THE SENATE soon will take up a bill to allow victims of terrorism and their families to seize the frozen assets in this country of the governments that sponsored the harmful attacks. The legislation by Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Connie Mack is a response to administration efforts to block the tapping of Cuban and Iranian…

A Spokane firefighter learning about potential domestic terrorism nightmares probably echoed the sentiments of 450 other students. “I&#039ve learned to recognize that I need to be afraid,” the firefighter whispered Tuesday as he walked into a large training room lined with equipment. Full Story

Those who would arrive first at the scene of a domestic terrorist attack are training this week to detect and deal with its deadly aftermath: nuclear, biological or chemical agents. Full Story

A Palestinian militant suspected of masterminding some of the bloodiest terror attacks against Israel in recent years has been taken into custody by the Palestinian Authority, Israeli and Palestinian sources said tonight. Full Story

A man believed armed with a shotgun took about 35 children and staff hostage at a Norwegian nursery school today, police said. Full Story

The parents of an American teen-ager slain on the West Bank have filed suit in a federal court in Chicago against Islamic groups and charities, claiming they raised money in the United States for Hamas, a radical Islamic group that has carried out dozens of suicide bombings against Israelis. Full Story

The State Department today warned Americans in Israel, on the West Bank and in Gaza there is an increased possibility of terrorism. Full Story

A meeting of top executives of Russian federal law enforcement bodies on struggle against terrorism started at the Russian Prosecutor-General&#039s Office on Friday. Opening the meeting, acting Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov noted that “the situation is difficult in this case”. Full Story

The Russian law enforcement agencies are going to tighten control over the putting into effect of special measures, aimed at eliminating sources of financing of terrorist groups and at blocking the channels of the illegal supply of weapons, munitions and communication facilities to them. This decision was made at a coordinating conference of heads of…

These days, bomb threats are a popular tactic. It&#039s amazing how much fear can be caused by a single phone call; it might compel an organization to evacuate a building, close for the day or enact restrictive security procedures. A single call might cause a school to send all its students home. Full Story

The doomsday cult whose leaders have been convicted in the 1995 gas attack on Tokyo subways will pay $37.4 million in compensation to the victims, Japanese media reports said Thursday. Full Story

An Egyptian man tried Thursday to hijack an EgyptAir plane by claiming a jar of hair gel was a bomb, but was overpowered by the crew and handed over to police in southern Egypt, airport officials said. Full Story

The Law Commission of India, headed by Shri Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy, has put its 173rd report on Prevention of Terrorism Bill, 2000, which is intended to succeed the already lapsed TADA, on its website here. Full Story

Fresh attacks by heavily armed Tamil separatist rebels brought them to within a few miles of the northern city of Jaffna today, raising the possibility that the Sri Lankan army may have to surrender the strategically important site. Full Story

Faced with increasingly sophisticated crime rings and terrorist networks, Canada and the United States are working together to increase security across North America. Full Story

Algerians and Moroccans continue to talk. They&#039ve been doing that for years and as of today nothing has been achieved in spite of all the speeches of good will and discourse of brotherhood. Full Story

Guerrillas attacked a string of military posts in the Israeli-occupied zone of south Lebanon early today, provoking airstrikes and artillery shelling, Lebanese security officials said. Full Story

The General Accounting Office has released a report entitled “Combating Terrorism: How Five Foreign Countries Are Organized to Combat Terrorism”. The report looks at the following countries: Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom. The document has been archived on the TRC server in PDF format. Full Document. There is also an HTML Version

Muslim extremists have driven through a military cordon in Jolo island in the southern Philippines with all 21 mostly foreign hostages, a senior police official said Tuesday. Full Story

Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky has suggested that the computer virus could be a useful tool for Russian foreign policy. Full Story

The Defense Department reported Friday that four classified networks were infected with the “love bug” virus. Full Story

Reports circulated recently in this city near the Afghan border that posters with a message from Osama bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi millionaire wanted by U.S. authorities on terrorism charges, had appeared calling on Muslim youths to wage holy war against the West. Full Story

Dartmouth has become home to a high-tech antiterrorism initiative, and the timing couldn&#039t be better. Full Story

The founder of a rapidly growing religious cult was arrested today for allegedly swindling followers with false claims that he heard divine voices and wielded power over people&#039s fates through examining their feet. Full Story

French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday that France will continue to cooperate with Spain in fighting terrorism perpetuated by the Basque militant group ETA. Full Story

Two Egyptians being held in London were added Monday to the indictment stemming from the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. Full Story

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says she is “heartened” overall by strides made in the United States&#039 fight against global terrorism in 1999. But as RFE/RL&#039s correspondent Lisa McAdams reports, Albright urged continued pressure and Congressional funding to keep up the fight. Full Story

Global terrorism has a new face: its practitioners are less the well-organized, state-sponsored groups of old and increasingly part of “far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror.” So said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright last week as she released a report on global terrorism. Full Story

The General Accounting Office has made available the following report entitled “Combating Terrorism: Need to Eliminate Duplicate Weapons of Mass Destruction Training.” The document is available in PDF form. Full Document