April 3-6, 1997: Islamic militants killed 119 people in seven separate attacks in villages east, west and south of Algiers, including 52 people in the Medea region.

April 10, 1997: The body of Israeli soldier Sharon Edri, missing for seven months, was found in the West Bank. Edri had been kidnapped and murdered by a Hamas terrorist cell.

April 14, 1997: Armed Islamic Group extremists killed 30 people in a village south of Algiers.

April 22-23, 1997: Islamic militants massacred 140 people in three villages south of Algiers.

April 25, 1997: A bomb hidden under railway tracks south of Algiers killed 21 people.

April 26, 1997: Two teen-age girls were found stabbed to death in a nature reserve near Jerusalem.

May 15, 1997: Fifty armed men attacked a village south of Algiers and massacred 34 people.

May 25, 1997: Islamic extremists from the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines beheaded five people.

May 29, 1997: Islamic militants killed 14 people in a mountain hamlet southwest of Algiers.

June 1-2, 1997: Three bombs in Algiers killed at least 18 people.

June 14-16, 1997: Islamic militants killed 68 people in three attacks, two in Algiers.

June 19, 1997: A bomb exploded in a movie theater in Algiers killing two people.

July 5-8, 1997: Islamic militants killed 61 people in the Medea region of Algeria.

July 12-13, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of 44 villagers in the Medea region of Algeria.

July 14, 1997: A bomb exploded at a market in Algiers killing at least 21 people.

July 19-23, 1997: In separate raids on two Algerian villages, 56 people were murdered.

July 22, 1997: Six policemen were shot dead by suspected Muslim militants in el-Minya, south of Cairo.

July 25, 1997: In attacks on hamlets south of Algiers, 28 people were killed.

July 25, 1997: Suspected Muslim militants from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front killed three family members in a southern Philippine province.

July 26-27, 1997: Islamic militants killed 64 people in two villages south of Algiers.

July 29-30, 1997: Forty-one people were massacred south of Algiers and three people were killed when two bombs exploded south of Algiers.

July 30, 1997: Hamas suicide bombers killed 16 people and wounded more than 170 others in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.

July 30, 1997: A car bomb killed eight people and wounded 25 on a crowded street in Algiers.

July 30-31, 1997: In a series of massacres outside Algiers, 100 people were killed.

August 3-4, 1997: In a series of village massacres south of Algiers, between 75 and 110 people were murdered.

August 5-8, 1997: Islamic militants killed 68 people in a series of massacres and bombings south of Algiers.

August 10, 1997: Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon.

August 19, 1997: An anti-government militant killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor in a town in New Hampshire.

August 19, 1997: The Egyptian terror group Jamaa Islamiya claimed responsibility for killing four policemen and two civilians in the southern Egyptian province of Asyut.

August 20, 1997: An Algerian film director was gunned down near his home in an Algiers suburb.

August 21, 1997: Islamic militants killed 63 villagers in Souhane, south of Algiers. A bomb exploded at a market in Medea, south of Algiers, killing one person.

August 24, 1997: Islamic militants murdered 29 people in a village near Medea, south of Algiers. In two suburbs of Algiers, nine people were killed.

August 25, 1997: At least four people were killed when a bomb exploded in a crowded market in Algiers.

August 26, 1997: Islamic militants killed 64 people in Beni Ali, south of Algiers.

August 28, 1997: A bomb exploded near a mosque in Algiers killing eight people. Five children were killed in attacks in west Algeria and 16 people were killed in attacks on villages in the southwest.

August 29, 1997: Islamic militants slaughtered at least 98 and possibly as many as 300 people in the Sidi Moussa district south of Algiers.

August 30, 1997: In two attacks south of Algiers, 47 people were slashed to death.

September 4, 1997: Hamas suicide bombers killed five Israelis on a crowded street in Jerusalem.

September 5-6, 1997: Islamic militants murdered 63 people in the Algiers suburb of Beni Messous and killed nine people in the Saida and Miliana regions of Algeria.

September 6, 1997: Islamic militants from Jamaa Islamiya shot dead three family members in a village south of Cairo.

September 9, 1997: Two people were killed when a bomb exploded in a village south of Algiers.

September 18, 1997: Suspected Islamic militants attacked a tour bus in Cairo with automatic weapons and gasoline bombs killing nine Germans and their Egyptian driver.

September 18, 1997: An Israeli soldier was killed by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

September 19, 1997: Islamic militants killed seven people in Abouyene, a village on the Algerian-Moroccan border.

September 21, 1997: Islamic militants killed 53 people in Beni-Slimane, south of Algiers.

September 23, 1997: At least 85 and possibly up to 200 people were killed in an attack by Islamic militants in the eastern Algiers suburb of Baraki. Three motorists were slain by Islamic militants west of Algiers and a bomb exploded in a cafe east of Algiers killing one person.

September 26-27, 1997: South of Algiers, Islamic militants attacked a village killing 15 people and a village school killing 15 people.

September 29, 1997: Islamic militants killed 48 people in the village of Sidi Serhane, south of Algiers, and murdered 19 people in three separate incidents in suburbs of Algiers.

September 29, 1997: An Israeli soldier was killed by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.