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January 1, 1998: An Israeli woman was shot by terrorists as she drove along a highway east of Tel Aviv. She died several days later.

January 2-3, 1998: Islamic militants murdered 18 people in three neighborhoods in the hills of Algiers. In Ain Delfa, south of Algiers, attackers hacked to death four people.

January 3, 1998: Press reports say 117 people were killed in a massacre at Remka, in the Relizane province of Algeria.

January 4-5, 1998: Press reports say several hundred people were burned alive in Algeria's Relizane province and at least 170 others died in massacres in towns and villages to the south and west of Algiers.

January 5-6, 1998: In three massacres in the western Algerian province of Relizane, Islamic militants killed at least 62 people.

January 8-9, 1998: Islamic militants killed at least 35 people in Saida, southwest of Algiers.

January 10, 1998: Press reports say that over 50 people were killed by Islamic militants in three attacks in Medea, near Algiers and in the southwestern region of Saida.

January 11-12, 1998: In attacks at Sidi Hamed and Haouche Sahraoui, two villages south of Algiers, Islamic militants massacred at least 134 people, possibly up to 428.

January 17, 1998: Islamic militants killed 18 people at a fake road block south of Algiers.

January 19, 1998: At least 38 people were killed in a series of massacres and bombings in Algeria.

January 21, 1998: Islamic militants massacred a family of eight in Rehal, in southwest Algeria.

January 22-25, 1998: Attacks carried out by Islamic militants in Algeria killed at least 45 people.

January 25, 1998: Islamic militants slashed the throats of 20 villagers in Frenda, southwest of Algiers.

January 27-28, 1998: Islamic militants massacred 34 people at Djelfa, Laghouat, and Blida, and two others near Bainem, Algeria.

January 29, 1998: An off-duty police officer was killed and a nurse critically wounded in a blast at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.

January 30, 1998: A local politician and his wife were shot dead by Basque/ETA separatists in Seville, Spain.

February 2, 1998: Islamic militants killed 15 people on a road in Aid Djedje in Algeria's western province of Tlemcen.

February 7, 1998: An Israeli soldier was killed by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

February 11, 1998: An Israeli yeshiva student was stabbed to death in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Reches Shuafat.

February 14, 1998: Islamic militants killed 11 people in Sidi Ameur, southeast of Algiers and killed four people at a fake roadblock near Berrouaghia, south of Algiers.

February 15, 1998: Islamic militants slit the throats of 17 people near Saida, southwest of Algiers.

February 18, 1998: Islamic militants killed 23 people at Sidi Djilali, near the Algerian-Moroccan border.

February 20, 1998: Islamic militants ambushed and killed 27 soldiers in the Kabylie region, east of Algiers.

February 23, 1998: A bomb exploded on a train traveling outside Algiers killing 22 people.

February 26, 1998: A bomb exploded on a bus in Algeria's Medea province killing at least 10 people.

February 26, 1998: Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah mortar attack in southern Lebanon.

March 6-9, 1998: At least 34 people were killed in six attacks in Algeria.

March 10, 1998: Islamic militants killed five people near Tissemsilt, southwest of Algiers.

March 15, 1998: In Western Algeria, Islamic militants killed nine people in Cheraba, and four people at Bir el Jir.

March 22, 1998: Islamic militants shot dead four Egyptian police officers south of Cairo.

March 27, 1998: Islamic militants killed at least 52 people in Had Sahary Youb, south of Algiers.

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