October 2-3, 1997: The Armed Islamic Group killed 105 people in a series of massacres and bombings in several villages south of Algiers.

October 5, 1997: Islamic militants attacked a school bus south of Algiers killing 16 schoolchildren and their driver.

October 5-6, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of 16 people in Sekmouna, a village south of Algiers.

October 8, 1997: Two Israeli soldiers were killed by bombs planted by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

October 10, 1997: A bomb exploded in a mosque in Algiers during Friday prayer killing seven people and wounding 20.

October 11, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of a family of 11 in a village south of Algiers.

October 12, 1997: Islamic militants slashed to death 43 civilians at a fake roadblock in Sig, west of Algers. Nine motorists were killed on a road south of Algiers.

October 13, 1997: Nine police officers and two Coptic Christians were shot dead by Islamic militants in two separate incidents in southern Egypt.

October 14, 1997: Islamic militants killed 54 people on a bus near Sig, west of Algiers.

October 19, 1997: Islamic militants killed five farmers near Laalaam, a village east of Algiers.

October 27, 1997: Islamic militants killed six members of a family in the Saida region of western Algeria.

October 28, 1997: Islamic militants massacred 16 people in Oued Djer, a village south of Algiers.

November 5, 1997: In western Algeria, Islamic militants killed four people in Medea province and eight others near Tlemcen.

November 6, 1997: Four children died when a bomb exploded at a house in western Algeria. Islamic militants slit the throats of five people in Chlef, southwest of Algiers.

November 7-9, 1997: Islamic militants fatally stabbed and shot 27 people in the village of Lahmalit, south of Algiers. Armed groups in the northwest killed 23 motorists near the town of Tlemcen and six shepherds near Mascara.

November 12, 1997: Four American oil company employees and their Pakistani driver were shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan.

November 12, 1997: Islamic militants shot dead two policemen and a farmer in southern Egypt.

November 16, 1997: Islamic militants killed eight people at a fake checkpoint near M'sila, south of Algiers, and three people near the western Algerian town of Maghnia.

November 17, 1997: Islamic extremists belonging to Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya shot dead 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor.

November 20, 1997: A Palestinian gunman shot dead an Israeli student in the Old City of Jerusalem.

November 20-21, 1997: Islamic militants killed eight people in the village of Oued Zitoun, south of Algiers, slit the throats to two girls and shot dead a woman in Algiers. A bomb exploded in central Algiers killing two.

November 23, 1997: Islamic militants killed a farmer and wounded four members of his family in the southern Philippines.

November 23, 1997: Islamic militants shot dead a man in the western Algerian village of Marhoum.

November 27, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of 25 people at fake roadblocks near the village of Souhane, south of Algiers.

November 28, 1997: Islamic militants killed four people near El Affroun, southwest of Algiers.

November 29, 1997: Islamic militants shot or hacked to death 29 villagers in the southwestern Algerian province of Saida.

December 2, 1997: Islamic militants killed four family members in Medea, south of Algiers. A bomb exploded in Ouled Aissa, east of Algiers, killing three.

December 3, 1997: A bomb exploded near Algiers killing two people. Islamic militants killed two people near Medea, south of Algiers.

December 8, 1997: Islamic militants machine-gunned a passenger bus in Algeria killing one woman.

December 9, 1997: Two students were killed when a bomb exploded near a school in Blida, south of Algiers. Islamic militants killed seven members of a family in Medea.

December 10-11, 1997: A car bomb killed two people in Ain Defla province and Islamic militants killed four people in Frenda, southwest of Algiers and two people in Domas in Ain Defla province.

December 13-14, 1997: Islamic militants killed four girls they kidnapped after murdering 14 of the teen-agers' relatives in northeast Algiers.

December 17, 1997: Islamic militants killed four people at a fake roadblock in the Bouira region of Algeria. Five people were killed when a bomb exploded under a bus in Algiers.

December 18-19, 1997: Islamic militants killed 31 people in Larba, south of Algiers. In Lakhdaria, east of Algiers, Islamic militants killed 30 people.

December 19, 1997: Islamic militants killed 10 shepherds in Laghouat province, south of Algiers. Two bombs exploded in Blida, south of Algiers, killing four people.

December 21, 1997: Islamic militants killed 30 villagers in the western Algerian village of El Bordj.

December 22, 1997: Islamic militants slashed the throats of 53 villagers in Sidi el Antar and 28 villagers in Shari, both southwest of Algiers. In Algiers, militants killed 11 people.

December 23, 1997: A bomb exploded in a house in the Algiers suburb of Ouled Allel, killing nine members of a family.

December 23-24, 1997: Islamic militants killed at least 59, possibly 90, people in overnight massacres in the Tiaret region, southwest of Algiers and in the Bainem forest in the western suburbs of Algiers. Three others were killed in the Bouzareah district of Algiers.

December 24-25, 1997: Islamic militants killed 27 villagers in Zouabria, southwest of Algiers.

December 26, 1997: Islamic militants slit the throats of 21 people in Ouled Moussa, south of Algiers.

December 27, 1997: The GIA claimed responsibility for killing 30 peasants in a mosque in the village of Safsaf, near Tlemcen. Islamic militants killed four people in Zeralda, west of Algiers.

December 28, 1997: In Algeria, Islamic militants killed 17 motorists near Mascara, 14 people in the western province of Sidi Bel Abbes, 11 villagers in El Bouacheria, 10 villagers in Laghouat province, seven people in Djelfa and three others at Hassi Bahbah.

December 29, 1997: Islamic militants killed 34 villagers in the Medea area south of Algiers and killed 14 bus passengers and their driver at a fake roadblock near Mascara, in central Algeria.

December 30, 1997: In Algeria Islamic militants killed 97 people in attacks in Sidi Bel Abbes province, Medea area, Chlef and Djelfa regions.

December 31, 1997: Islamic militants killed at least 78, possibly 412, people in the Algerian villages of Sahnine, Tayeb and Kherarba.