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NATO chief George Robertson said Wednesday Moscow should team up with the Atlantic alliance to tackle terrorism and extremism, warning that on its own Russia could not boost security in Central Asia. Full Story
Australian Defense Department officers caused tens of thousands of dollars damage to an Olympic venue at a counter-terrorism exercise last week, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday. Full Story
Russia's Chechnya spokesman stood by a warning on Tuesday that Moscow could launch air strikes against Afghanistan for supporting Chechen rebels, making clear that his threats were backed by the Kremlin. Full Story
A huge column of Israeli armor and troops crossed back into northern Israel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, signaling the end of Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon. Full Story
Diplomatic sources said the head of the South Lebanon Army left Paris to join his disbanding militia, which was scattering out of southern Lebanon after Israel suddenly began removing troops from its self-declared security zone. Full Story
Spanish Premier Jose Maria Aznar hosted French President Jacques Chirac for a one-day summit Tuesday at this northern Spanish city in which cooperation in the fight against terrorism and European Union reform initiatives topped the agenda. Full Story
Afghanistan has not received an official notification from Moscow about the possibility of Russia's dealing preventive strikes at terrorists' bases in the Afghan territory. First secretary of the Afghan embassy in Russia Gairat Gulam Sahi said this in a live broadcast of Echo of Moscow radio on Tuesday to comment on the statement of Russian…
Terrorist groups continue to kill indiscriminately and one of the latest show of force was during the visit of an Amnesty International delegation during which dozens of passengers of a bus were assassinated. While many say that security forces have slowed down their chase of terrorists, the military have in fact reinforced their positions in…
Twenty terrorist attacks against American targets in a 12-month period; a combined 40 strikes on U.S., French and British holdings; 52 anti-American protest marches; seven rocket attacks … the country in question isn't Afghanistan or Iran. It's Greece. The cradle of democracy, and a key NATO ally, is the home of anti-American terrorism. An intelligence…
Israeli troops blew up several outposts in an acceleration of their withdrawal early Wednesday, leaving southern Lebanon to Shiite Muslim guerrillas who have been filling a power vacuum created by departing enemies. Full Story
The Clinton administration and American Jewish leaders expressed support Tuesday for Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon as the Jewish state's 24-year-old security zone in Lebanon began collapsing six weeks early. Full Story
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism held their first series of public hearings today. Among the speakers was Dr. Dororthy Denning, who provided us with a copy of her testimony on “Cyberterrorism”. Full Testimony We will post additional testimony as it becomes publically available.
A shot was heard this morning from within the parliament complex where Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is being held hostage by gunmen in a coup attempt, Fiji Radio reported. Full Story
A man calling himself Martin Bormann after one of Hitler's senior Nazi henchmen has been arrested for possessing a large cache of explosives by the elite police unit in charge of Sydney's Olympic security. Full Story
Things are getting back to normal this morning at Baltimore-Washington International Airport following the discovery of a suspicious package by an X-ray machine. Full Story
In the wake of the Israeli army's exodus from south Lebanon, the Israel-allied Lebanese militia released all the inmates at the infamous El-Khiam prison on Tuesday, Israeli sources said. Full Story
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, is expressing concern over the scheduled appearance of an “Islamophobe” at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week. Steven Emerson, a self-styled “terrorism expert,” will testify before the committee at a May 23 hearing on H.R. 2121, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act. Full Story
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly urged Congress to reject legislation which would strip the government of an essential shield for confidential sources needed to prevent terrorism. Full Story
A man on trial for allegedly planning terrorist attacks during the New Year was compiling information on Israeli diplomats and Jordanian officials and businessmen, a police officer testified Monday. Full Story
The head of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs urged the leader of a coup attempt Tuesday to free the country's prime minister and other hostages he has been holding in parliament. Full Story
The trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing resumes on Tuesday with testimony expected to focus on detailed evidence based on explosive physics and forensic science. Full Story
Hizbollah guerrillas swept through more of Israel's shrinking occupation zone Tuesday, spurred on by the Jewish state's decision to withdraw quickly and the disintegration of its local militia. Full Story
The latest blast confirms fears that Muslim insurgents in the south are taking their war to the capital, raising the spectre of martial law. Full Story
Israel's South Lebanon Army militia appeared to be disintegrating in front of advancing Hizbollah guerrillas Monday as the Jewish state prepared to end its 22-year occupation. Full Story
Virtual patients” began reporting to Denver-area hospitals Saturday as a multi-agency mock biological warfare drill got under way to test the ability of public health and law enforcement agencies to respond to a real attack. Full Story
A group of 143 Kosovo Albanians accused of terrorism were sentenced Monday to between 7 and 13 years imprisonment by a Serbian court on charges of taking part in attacks against Belgrade government forces during the 1999 NATO air strikes. Full Story
At least three Maoist guerrillas were killed and seven police security guards injured in a shoot-out in Kalikot district, west of Kathmandu, on Sunday night, a police source said Monday. Full Story
Gunmen holding Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry in an attempted coup dragged him onto the lawn of the parliament building Monday and held a gun to his head, witnesses said. Full Story
Israel's army ordered residents of northern Israel into bomb shelters on Monday, witnesses said. The reason was not immediately clear. Full Story
Emergency planners learned yesterday how much they wouldn't know — at least in time to do much good — if a small nuclear bomb exploded in the District of Columbia. Full Story
Turkish Interior Minister Saadettin Tantan underlined on Saturday the depth of the Turkish-Egyptian relations, voicing hope for upgrading cooperation between the countries in all fields. Full Story
A bomb exploded in Manila's largest shopping mall Sunday, killing one person and injuring 11 others in the second attack on a shopping center in the capital in four days, officials said. Full Story
A series of mock terrorist attacks began on Saturday in the United States, testing the ability of top local, state and federal officials to respond to a catastrophic sequence of biological and chemical releases. Full Story
Sierra Leonean rebels released another 54 U.N. personnel Sunday after holding them hostage for nearly three weeks, a U.N. official said. Full Story
The leader of gunmen holding Fiji's prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry hostage for a fourth day left parliament house early on Monday to inspect damage in the capital, Suva. Full Story
Sierra Leone's rebels were expected to release more of their U.N. hostages on Monday, although keeping plenty of the foreign peacekeepers and military observers to use as bargaining chips. Full Story
Six Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded by live or rubber-coated metal bullets in recent West Bank and Gaza clashes with Israelis, Palestinian medics said Sunday. Full Story
The United States on Friday ordered the evacuation from Eritrea of non-essential US diplomats and dependents of all embassy personnel as war with Ethiopia intensified. Full Story
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's 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 ''day of rage,'' 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's legislative assembly building. Full Story
Nikolai Patrushev, Director of Russia's 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's 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,'' reports the State Department in its latest survey of global terrorism, ''emanate from two regions, South Asia and the Middle East.''Full Story
Armed men took over Fiji's 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's 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 'president' 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's counterterrorism efforts. Full Story
The Kafkafa security prison sits high on a summit among the craggy hills of northern Jordan. It's 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