October 4, 1998: A Palestinian sprayed gunfire inside a synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq, killing two Jews and two Muslims.
October 5, 1998: Islamic militants killed seven civilians in Algeria's Mascara province. Also in Mascara, a bomb exploded in a market, killing five people and wounding 62. In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah detonated two roadside bombs, killing two Israeli soldiers.
October 9, 1998: A Palestinian stabbed to death a female Israeli soldier on the West Bank.
October 13, 1998: Palestinian militants shot and killed an Israeli man bathing in a hillside spring outside Jerusalem.
October 15, 1998: Islamic militants cut the throats of three people in Algeria's Ain Temouchent region.
October 16, 1998: Islamic militants slit the throats of four teen-agers in the Algerian village of Oued Hamama. In Tlemcen province, a bomb exploded in a village mosque, killing three worshipers.
October 17, 1998: Islamic militants slashed the throats of nine people in Algeria's Constantine province.
October 23, 1998: A sniper shot and killed abortion doctor Barnett Slepian at his home near Buffalo, New York.
October 26, 1998: Palestinian militants shot and killed an Israeli man near Hebron. Several hours later, an Israeli beat to death a Palestinian farmer.
October 29, 1998: A Hamas suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into an Israeli army jeep that was escorting a bus of schoolchildren in Gaza, killing an Israeli soldier.
October 30, 1998: Islamic militants slit the throats of six people in Algeria's Medea region.
November 3, 1998: Islamic militants slit the throats of six people in Algeria's Chlef province.
November 4, 1998: A bomb exploded at Algeria's national gas and electricity company in Bedjaia, killing one person.
November 8, 1998: A car bomb exploded on a highway west of Algiers, killing one person.
November 11, 1998: Islamic militants slit the throats of 17 people in Algeria's Ain Defla province.
November 16, 1998: Three Israeli soldiers were killed by a Hezbollah bomb in southern Lebanon.
November 23, 1998: An Israeli soldier was killed in a Hezbollah mortar attack.
November 24, 1998: A bomb exploded near the Algerian town of Chlef killing two people. A car exploded outside the German embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, killing three people.
November 25, 1998: Two Israeli soldiers were killed in south Lebanon by a mine planted by Hezbollah.
November 26, 1998: Islamic militants killed two shepherds in Algeria's Saida region.
November 27, 1998: Islamic militants shot dead three people at a fake roadblock in Algeria's Ain Defla province. In Chlef province, a bomb exploded, killing a farmer.
November 30, 1998: Islamic militants killed three people at a fake roadblock in Algeria's Saida region.
December 2, 1998: A Palestinian man was stabbed to death apparently by an Israeli Jew near Abu Tor, in Jerusalem. In the Algerian hamlet of Sidi Rached, Islamic militants killed 12 villagers.
December 3, 1998: Fifteen people were killed in a bomb explosion near a market in the Algerian town of Khemis Miliana.
December 4, 1998: Four people were killed in a bomb blast in the Algerian town of Mascara.
December 5, 1998: Islamic militants killed seven people in the Algerian town of Merad.
December 6, 1998: Islamic militants killed eight villagers in the Algerian hamlet of Les Eucalyptus and nine villagers at Tadjana.
December 7, 1998: Islamic militants killed three civilians in Algeria's Saida region and two civilians in the Tiaret region.
December 8, 1998: The severed heads of four kidnapping victims, three Britons and a New Zealander, employees of a British telecommunications company, were found in Chechnya.
December 9, 1998: Islamic militants cut the throats of at least 45 people at Tadjena hamlet in Algeria's Chlef province.
December 11, 1998: Islamic militants killed four villagers in Ahmer el Ain, west of Algiers.
December 12, 1998: Algerian authorities finished excavating a mass grave where they found 110 bodies, believed to be victims of Islamic militants.
December 24, 1998: A PKK suicide bomber threw herself in front of a military bus in southeastern Turkey, killing a 13-year-old boy.
December 27, 1998: Islamic militants slashed the throats of 19 villagers in Algeria's Zmala hamlet in Ain Defla province. In the town of Khemis-Miliana, Islamic militants fired shells and bombs, killing 15 people. In the village of Ain N'sour, Islamic militants fatally stabbed 15 people.
December 29, 1998: Three Britons and one Australian were killed in Yemen when Yemeni security forces stormed Islamic militant kidnappers holding 16 Western tourists hostage.
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