A MUSLIM relief organization is a conduit for funds to the Abu Sayyaf from Saudi billionaire, Osama Bin Laden, the US Public Enemy No. 1, and his brother-in-law, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa. Full Story

A senior Philippine official was forced to admit yesterday that foreign agencies and governments were paying ransom to secure the release of their nationals held hostage by Muslim rebels. Full Story

A senior United States official is due in North Korea on Wednesday for talks on how Pyongyang can remove itself from Washington&#039s list of what it believes are state sponsors of terrorism. Full Story

The Hizbul Mujahideen on Wednesday claimed responsibility for killing 12 soldiers in an attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir just hours after the expiry of its ceasefire. Full Story

Heavily armed paramilitary groups slaughtered at least 13 villagers they claimed were rebel sympathizers in two separate attacks in northern Colombia, authorities said Tuesday. Full Story

Fighting between Afghanistan”s ruling Taleban and rival troops led by commander Ahmad Shah Masood escalated near a key opposition base on the border with Tajikistan, Afghan sources said on Wednesday. Full Story

Israel is concerned by the threat posed by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden. Officials said that for the first time, Bin Laden has sent agents to launch terrorist attacks against Israel and perhaps the Palestinian Authority. PA officials have confirmed this. Full Story

Just two years ago, on Aug. 7, 1998, international terrorists simultaneously bombed the American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing more than 200 people. Those catastrophic acts were unrelated to east Africa and were directed at the Americans there solely because they were deemed vulnerable. This anniversary should remind us of the danger…

The United States, commemorating the two U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, said on Monday the United Nations could impose an arms embargo and other new sanctions on the Taliban in Afghanistan to press them to extradite the alleged mastermind of the attacks. Full Story

At least 30 people were wounded when Sri Lanka&#039s Tamil Tiger rebels exploded a mine near a convoy of buses carrying sailors near the eastern Trincomalee town Wednesday, military officials said. Full Story

At least seven people were killed and 40 injured in a bomb blast Tuesday in an underground pedestrian walkway near the Kremlin in central Moscow. Full Story

The United States and North Korea are to hold talks this week in Pyongyang to draw up measures the Stalinist state needs to take to be removed from the US list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Full Story

Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore (R), head of a national panel on terrorism, has concluded that the United States lacks a clear plan to meet the needs of citizens in the event of a terrorist attack and he is dermined to develop one. Full Story

Supporters of Fiji&#039s coup rebels shot and killed two officers and injured three others in an apparent ambush Tuesday outside the capital, the military said. Full Story

Two British policemen and two Canadians arrested by the Yugoslav army last week in Montenegro were transferred to Belgrade Tuesday to face possible charges of planning terrorist attacks, their laywer said. Full Story

A businessman in Spain&#039s Basque region was killed by a bomb Tuesday amid escalating violence blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, police said. Full Story

When the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed two years ago, the US accused the Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden, of being behind the blasts. Since then it has exerted intense pressure on Afghanistan&#039s Taleban movement- which is sheltering Osama – to hand him over to face justice. Full Story

American diplomats, Kenyans and Tanzanians have not easily put aside the memories of August 7, 1998, when twin bombs exploded at U.S. embassies in the African nations&#039 capitals, killing more than 220 people and injuring more than 5,000. Full Story

On the second anniversary of the bombings of two American embassies in East Africa that killed 226 people, the State Department announced plans to entice members of the U.N. Security Council to tighten the screws on Usama Bin Laden, the man alleged to have plotted the attacks. Full Story

A fourth body has been found amid the wreckage of a car which exploded in Bilbao, northern Spain, killing suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, police investigating the blast said Tuesday. Full Story

A car bomb exploded Monday in the northern Basque city of Bilbao, killing at least three suspected separatists who appeared to be transporting the explosive, news reports said. Full Story

Two years after the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed more than 260 people, and despite stepped up security measures, the number of threats against U.S. interests worldwide are at an all time high, officials say. Full Story

U.S. security agencies are bracing for a new wave of threats from terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, with today being the anniversary of his U.S. embassy bombings – and the Olympic Games just a month away. Full Story

The United States is joining forces with Russia in an effort to impose additional U.N. Security Council sanctions against Afghanistan for refusing to hand over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Full Story

Two years after the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the case that formed the cornerstone of an unprecedented legal attack on terrorism worldwide is still creeping toward a trial. Full Story

A gunfight that broke out after a group of armed men burst into the office of a right-wing organisation in central Tokyo on Monday left two people dead and six wounded, several of them seriously. Full Story

Gunmen shot and killed 12 people Saturday, including seven Afghans working for the United Nations&#039 mine clearing agency, in western Afghanistan, an aid worker said today. Full Story

The United States marked the anniversary of the bombing of its embassy in Kenya on Monday by providing a grant to replace a bank destroyed by the blast two years ago. Full Story

At least 16 people were killed in a leftist rebel attack on a police outpost and at a guerrilla roadblock, officials and local media reported on Sunday. Full Story

A bomb disposal team converged on the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday — just days after a blast killed two people in the Indonesian capital amid heightened political tensions. Full Story

An Italian secret service general said on Friday that the CIA gave its tacit approval to a series of bombings in Italy in the 1970s to sow instability and keep communists from taking power. Full Story

Algeria&#039s armed Islamic rebels shot dead six civilians and wounded two others in a raid near Blida, 30 miles south of Algiers, medical sources said Friday. Full Story

A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up at a security check point in Sri Lanka”s northern Jaffna town, the government said on Friday. The bomber detonated his explosives when he was stopped by security forces on Thursday, the government said in a statement. Full Story

British officials in Belgrade were still waiting early Friday to be officially notified by the Yugoslav authorities about the arrest of two Britons by the Yugoslav army in Montenegro earlier this week. Full Story

India will support a comprehensive convention to counter international terrorism at the forthcoming United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said Thursday. Full Story

A virtually unknown Indonesian group claiming links to separatist Muslim rebels in the Philippines has owned up to last Tuesday&#039s bomb attack on Ambassador to Jakarta Leonides Caday. Full Story

Fiji&#039s military said on Friday detained rebel leader George Speight was set to make a court appearance this weekend as soldiers picked up more of his remaining supporters. Full Story

Southern India&#039s top movie star Rajkumar on Friday pleaded with authorities to grant amnesty to the feared jungle bandit holding him hostage. Full Story

Fifty-thousand people marched Wednesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of one of postwar Europe”s worst massacres, a still-mysterious bombing that killed 85 people at the Bologna train station. Full Story

Two years after U.S. embassies were blown up in East Africa, the United States still is frustrated in its efforts to pry Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind, out of his refuge in Afghanistan. Full Story

The University of Alabama ranks among the first 21 educational institutions to voluntarily participate in a federal program that monitors international students to help deter possible terrorism acts. Full Story

Nine people were injured in a hand grenade blast in the Cambodian capital, police said Wednesday. Full Story

Seven US nationals are among the 165 Shell oil company workers kidnapped by armed youths and held on two rigs in south-east Nigeria, the US State Department said today. Full Story

Indonesian police ordered checks on Filipinos in Jakarta yesterday as they struggled to determine who planted a deadly bomb at the Philippine ambassador&#039s residence on Tuesday. The blast killed two people and injured 20, including the ambassador. Full Story

Kashmir police have recovered the body of a German tourist abducted by Muslim militants last month, a top police source told AFP today. Full Story

Indigenous Caiapo Indians in the remote northeastern Brazilian state of Para released two hostages on Wednesday from a group of 18 fishermen they seized six days ago demanding a demarcation of their reservation border. Full Story

When Brent Hannon got back from Indonesia last September, he had quite a tale to tell his friends. To begin with, there was the trek across bucolic Lombok Island and the pitching of tents in the shadow of mystical Mount Rinjani. Hannon, a 41-year old freelance journalist, shared dinner with fellow travelers and then drifted…

Royal Dutch/Shell (RD.AS)(SHEL.L) said it had reached agreement with local communities to free 165 hostages held on two of its oil rigs in southern Nigeria. Full Story

Outside the Sunnah Al-Nabawiah Mosque, a lanky young immigrant named Aji recalls the violence and terror in his native Sri Lanka. His father was abducted by Tamil extremists, and Aji himself narrowly escaped being killed by a terrorist bomb at the Central Bank that sent body parts flying into the street. Aji came to Montreal…

Speaker at ISU conference says even small towns can face threat of attack. A disintegrating social fabric may be to blame for escalating terrorism, an expert in the field believes. Full Story

Two separate bomb blasts early on Wednesday destroyed the car of a broker in Nicosia and damaged offices of a brokerage firm, police said. Nobody was injured in the attacks, which followed recent sharp declines on the island”s stock market, leading some small investors to blame brokers for what they see as market plays at…

Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Tuesday said he would try and allay New Delhi&#039s concerns over Nepalese soil being used for cross-border terrorism in India. Full Story

Three Kosovar Albanians were handed jail sentences by a Yugoslav military court Tuesday for “terrorism and criminal association with a view to carrying out hostile acts,” a Serbian newspaper, Politika, reported. Full Story

A car bomb killed the deputy head of the pro-Moscow civilian administration in the Chechen town of Urus-Martan, Russian military officials said Wednesday, the Interfax news agency reported. Full Story

India vowed Wednesday to protect the fragile ceasefire process in Indian Kashmir, after a series of overnight massacres by Muslim militants claimed 93 lives, mostly Hindu civilians. Full Story

Armed militants in southeastern Nigeria were holding 165 people hostage at two oil installations operated by Royal Dutch/Shell, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. Full Story

Alarmed at an upsurge of extreme rightwing violence, German political leaders called Monday for decisive action against the terror tactics of neo-Nazis and skinheads against foreigners. Full Story

Three people were killed and dozens wounded when unidentified attackers bombed a town fiesta and a commercial center in the southern Philippines, police said Tuesday. Full Story

Yemeni authorities have arrested a gang of seven people on suspicion of involvement in kidnapping of foreigners, the official SABA news agency reported Monday night. Full Story

Marxist rebels killed at least 13 policemen and four civilians, burning and beheading some, as they attacked a Colombian mountain town with homemade missiles and car bombs over the weekend, police said Monday. Full Story