January 1, 1997: Six construction workers were hacked to death at their building site in Douaouda, west of Algiers.

January 5, 1997: Militants killed 16 people in Benachour, south of Algiers.

January 6, 1997: Militants killed 18 people and wounded 18 others in a raid on Douaouada.

January 7, 1997: A car bomb exploded in a central Algiers shopping district killing 13 and wounding 100.

January 13, 1997: Militants from the Armed Islamic Group killed 19 people south of Algiers.

January 15, 1997: A car bomb in central Algiers killed 24 people.

January 16, 1997: A car bomb exploded in Boufarik, south of Algiers, killing 12 people.

January 19, 1997: A car bomb exploded in Algiers killing 42 people and wounding 100.

January 19, 1997: Militants massacred 36 people in the village of Beni-Slimane, south of Algiers and a car bomb exploded outside an Algiers cafe killing 30 and wounding over 100 others.

January 21, 1997: Two car bombs exploded in Algiers killing 18 people.

January 22, 1997: A car bomb exploded in Boufarik, south of Algiers, killing 10 people and wounding 30 others and explosives packed into a shopping bag went off in a marketplace at Blida, south of Algiers, killing five and wounding 15 others.

January 23, 1997: Militants murdered 15 people on a farm outside Algiers, massacred 26 people in Benramdane, a village south of Algiers, killed four members of a policeman's family in an Algiers suburb and shot to death the mayor of Bachdjarah, south of Algiers.

January 24, 1997: Forty people were massacred in Ouled Ali, a village south of Algiers.

January 28, 1997: Five gunmen assassinated the leader of the General Union of Algerian Workers in Algiers and a package bomb exploded in an Algiers suburb marketplace killing three people.

January 30, 1997: Attackers slit the throats of eight people outside Algiers.

January 30, 1997: Three Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hezbollah roadside bomb in southern Lebanon.

February 1, 1997: Islamic militants decapitated 31 people in Medea, Algeria.

February 2, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of seven villagers in a farming town south of Algiers.

February 3, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of nine family members in a village south of Algiers.

February 7, 1997: Islamic militants murdered 24 people in four separate attacks in Algiers and outside the capital.

February 10, 1997: Islamic militants decapitated 25 people in a village south of Algiers and detonated a bomb at a military compound in Boukara killing 20 people.

February 12, 1997: Islamic militants burst into a Coptic Church in southern Egypt and opened fire on a charity meeting killing nine religious students.

February 13, 1997: Attackers shot and killed three Christians in southern Egypt.

February 16, 1997: A group of 30 Islamic militants attacked a village south of Algiers and killed 33 people.

February 17, 1997: Islamic militants decapitated 41 people in the Chrea recreational area south of Algiers.

February 23, 1997: A lone gunman opened fire on tourists at the Empire State Building in New York, killing one and wounding six.

February 23, 1997: Islamic militants killed 18 people near the town of Saida in Algeria.

February 28, 1997: One Israeli soldier was killed and another wounded in a Hezbollah mortar bomb attack in southern Lebanon.

March 13, 1997: Islamic militants shot dead 13 men in a mostly Christian southern Egyptian village and then shot dead a woman after firing on a Cairo-bound train.

March 13, 1997: A Jordanian soldier shot to death seven Israeli schoolgirls on an outing on the Israeli-Jordanian border.

March 17, 1997: Three car bombs exploded in Algiers killing four and wounding dozens.

March 19, 1997: One Israeli soldier was killed and three others wounded by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

March 19, 1997: Thirty-two people were massacred by Islamic militants in a village south of Algiers.

March 21, 1997: Three Israeli women were killed and dozens others wounded by a Hamas suicide bomber at a central Tel Aviv cafe.

March 21, 1997: Islamic extremists slit the throats of seven women during prayer hour in a village south of Algiers.

March 27, 1997: A bomb exploded in a restaurant in suburban Algiers killing four people and wounding 27.