The New York Police Department was ramping up security at the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday afternoon following terrorist threats on two of America's most treasured landmarks.
Iran remains the world's most active sponsor of terrorism, while Sudan and Libya took some steps – but not enough – to "get out of the business," the State Department said Tuesday in an annual report to Congress.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Sunday she believes that Osama bin Laden decided to launch deadly terrorist strikes on U.S. territory in direct response to President Clinton's failed missile strikes on bin Laden's Afghanistan headquarters in 1998.
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) In two of the nation’s most populous areas, the weekend brought water supply worries. Authorities in Orlando, Fla. were investigating an unspecified threat to the city’s water system as a separate report said New York City’s water supply is not well-protected.
A man identified as an al-Qaida leader has claimed responsibility for last month's attack on a Tunisian synagogue that killed 19 people and vowed to attack Americans soon, a pan-Arab newspaper reported Saturday.
Attorney General John Ashcroft and the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, were told a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks that the F.B.I. had received a memorandum from its Phoenix office the previous July warning that Osama bin Laden's followers could be training at American flight schools, government officials said today.
Landlords and tenants from San Francisco to New York went on alert Monday for suspicious persons and vehicles that could represent a terrorist threat to the nation's apartment buildings.
Walk-in suicide bombers like those who have attacked public places in Israel will hit the United States eventually, the director of the FBI said Monday.
Some 1,200 World Bank employees were advised to stay home from work on Tuesday after inconclusive tests detected anthrax contamination on mail bound for their building, a World Bank spokeswoman said on Monday.
The government will launch a wide-ranging program of polygraph testing to determine if one of its own employees is responsible for last year's anthrax attacks, ABCNEWS has learned.
American intelligence officials have worried about suicidal belt bombers for at least two years, since a report raised fears that Osama Bin Laden might send them after the President of the United States.
Six men arrested last month on suspicion of planting a bomb that targeted an anti-terror official and killed two passers-by have confessed, authorities in Jordan said Tuesday.
With new threats of terrorism looming over the United States, public health experts from both sides of the border yesterday raised the possibility that the region could be vulnerable to a biological attack.
The United States will release its most extensive annual "terrorism" report ever on Tuesday, reviewing a year that included the Sept. 11 attacks as well as the launch of Washington's global "war on terror."
President Andres Pastrana's diplomatic offensive in Europe seems to have paid off as Europe seems set to add Colombia's Marxist guerrillas its list of terrorist organisations.
Bush administration predictions that more terror attacks on Americans are virtually certain to occur are based in part on new intelligence suggesting al-Qaida plotting is on the rise again.
A two-star army general on Tuesday said a U.S.-backed military offensive has largely dismantled a brutal Muslim extremist group and pledged to try to finish it off as the new head of military forces in the country's troubled south.
A Bellingham grandmother known for caring for the elderly and the infirm pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to sending 18 threatening hoax letters to the state attorney general, six of them laced with white powder, at the height of last fall's anthrax scare.
A Palestinian bomber blew himself up Monday at a busy crossroads in northern Israel. He killed only himself, but the second suicide attack in as many days demonstrated attackers still have the means and the will to strike despite Israel's military offensive across the West Bank.
