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April 4, 1998: A bomb killed one person in the western Algerian province of Mascara and two people were shot dead in the Medea region.

April 5, 1998: Islamic militants shot dead two farmers in southern Egypt.

April 5-8, 1998: Islamic militants in Algeria massacred at least 52 people in attacks on villages in the northwest and 12 people in Medea province.

April 28, 1998: Islamic militants massacred 43 people in Chouardia, south of Algiers.

May 1, 1998: Islamic militants killed 11 people at a fake roadblock in Algeria's Medea province and three people were killed when a bomb exploded in the Ain Delfa region.

May 4, 1998: Islamic militants killed two people at a fake roadblock in Algeria's Blida province.

May 5, 1998: Islamic militants killed eight people in Algeria's Ain Delfa province.

May 6, 1998: A Jewish seminary student was stabbed to death by an Arab assailant in Jerusalem's Old City.

May 7, 1998: Islamic militants killed eight people in Algeria's Medea province.

May 10, 1998: Three Algerian train passengers were killed in a bomb attack south of Algiers.

May 11, 1998: Islamic militants slashed the throats of 22 people at a fake roadblock in Algeria's Oran province.

May 13, 1998: A Palestinian man was stabbed to death in a Jerusalem neighborhood.

May 22, 1998: A bomb ripped through a crowded market in an Algiers suburb killing 18 people.

May 26, 1998: A bomb killed at least seven people in a market in the northern Algerian town of Khemis Miliana.

May 27, 1998: Islamic militants massacred 11 people in Algeria's Blida province.

May 28, 1998: Hezbollah terrorists killed two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon.

June 2, 1998: The Mujahidin Khalq took responsibility for an explosion at a Teheran courthouse that killed three people.

June 9, 1998: Islamic militants killed 11 people in rural parts of Algeria.

June 11, 1998: A bomb exploded under a train west of Algiers killing 17 people.

June 13, 1998: Islamic militants killed four people near Algiers.

June 15, 1998: Islamic militants killed eight people at a roadblock in Algeria's Mascara region.

June 17, 1998: Islamic militants killed 13 people in Algeria's Medea province and four people were killed by a bomb in Tipaza region.

June 20, 1998: In Madrid, a Syrian businessman who had testified in the Achille Lauro hijacking case was assassinated outside his home. In Algeria, Islamic militants killed 14 people in Tissemsilt province and a bomb killed three women in Medea.

June 22, 1998: Two Israeli youths stuck a wooden plank out their van window hitting and killing a Palestinian farmer on a West Bank road.

June 25, 1998: In Algeria, Islamic militants murdered popular singer Lounes Matoub and killed 17 people in Saida province. In Spain, ETA separatists killed a Basque politician. In Lebanon, two Israeli soldiers were killed by Hezbollah.

June 27, 1998: A bomb killed three people in Algeria's Tebessa province.

June 29, 1998: A bomb killed three people in Algeria's Ain Defla province.

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