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

For a place known locally as “the house of wasps”, the island of Jolo appears deceptively beautiful. Rising out of a glittering sea, it is clad in coconut groves hiding thousands of armed men and 21 international hostages whose adventure holiday has turned into a two-week ordeal at the hands of Islamic extremists. Full Story

THE Basque separatist organisation Eta – responsible for almost 30 years of bombings and assassinations – has put its terror campaign into the hands of a woman. Full Story

Three countries courted by the United States for a better relationship — Iran, Syria and North Korea — were again branded as sponsors of terrorism by the State Department on Monday along with Cuba, Iraq, Libya and Sudan. Full story Patterns of Global Terrorism – 1999

Two days after Israel pulled back from a series of tit-for-tat attacks against Lebanese guerrillas, Israel&#039s prime minister said Sunday the Jewish state will respond harshly to future attacks — despite its desire to keep the peace ahead of a July withdrawal from Lebanon. Full Story

A witness in the trial of 28 suspected terrorists testified Sunday that one defendant offered him military training under the Saudi dissident accused of two U.S. embassy bombings that killed 224 people. Full Story

Three members of a Breton separatist group were placed under formal investigation Sunday in connection with the bombing of a McDonald&#039s last month that killed an employee. Full Story

Uttering historic words it had long decried as surrender, the Irish Republican Army proclaimed Saturday that it will soon start to disarm — a breakthrough that makes lasting peace possible in Northern Ireland after decades of bloodshed. Full Story

Two bombs exploded within minutes of each other Friday in the southern port city of Karachi, killing one person and injuring six, police said. Full Story

Rebels in Sierra Leone have seized a contingent of peacekeepers from Zambia, raising to more than 300 the number of U.N. personnel they are believed to be holding captive, a U.N. spokesman said today. Full Story

Osama bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi Arabian who allegedly masterminded the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in east Africa, has sent terrorist trainers to at least six countries, the U.S. State Department said Monday. Full Story

We have just received word that there is a hostage situation in Charlotte, N.C. Gunman is holding hostages, one of which is possibly his wife. We received a cell phone call from somone in the building indicating that SWAT teams are on the scene and are trying to get the situation under control. For the…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has vowed to retaliate for a Hizbollah guerrilla rocket attack that raised tensions on the Lebanon border as Israel prepares to pull its troops out by July. Full Story

A State Department official on Thursday denied allegations that the United States made a deal with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that might sway the outcome of the Lockerbie bombing trial. Full Story

Sri Lanka has invoked draconian laws banning all activities that could harm national security as the government faces possibly its greatest crisis in its 17-year ethnic war against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north. Full Story

At least 19 people have been killed after Moslem rebels attacked a passenger bus at a roadblock south of Algiers, Algerian newspapers reported. Full Story

Day two of the Lockerbie trial was adjourned early Thursday after the prosecution ran out of witnesses for the day, and will resume Friday. Full Story

Presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo said on Wednesday that if he wins the runoff election his fight against terrorism and drug trafficking will be harsher than President Alberto Fujimori&#039s. Full Story

Two Libyans charged with bombing Pan Am Flight 103 entered pleas of not guilty Wednesday during the first day of trial in Camp Zeist, Netherlands. Full Story

A man armed with a knife hijacked a bus carrying about 20 people in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, and stabbed three women passengers, one of them fatally. Full Story

Four hostages were killed today when government troops stumbled upon Muslim rebels trying to cross a stream with their captives in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, officials said. Full Story More news on the situation from the BBC.

A British court has ordered the extradition of two Egyptians to the United States in connection with the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Full Story

Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels say they have launched a fierce attack on another military camp in the northern Jaffna peninsula as calls grow for India to come to the aid of the government. Full Story