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January 8, 1999: Islamic militants from the Abu Sayyaf group exploded bombs in two passenger buses in the southern Philippines killing two and wounding 20. Earlier in the week, Abu Sayyaf militants lobbed a grenade into a crowd in the southern Philippines town of Jolo killing 11 people and wounding 76.

January 11, 1999: Islamic militants slashed the throats of five villagers in the Algerian province of Bouira.

January 13, 1999: An Israeli border policeman was killed in the West Bank when Palestinian gunmen opened fire in an ambush.

January 16, 1999: Islamic militants slashed the throats of four shepherds in Algeria's Ain Defla province.

February 22, 1999: Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a clash with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

March 1-5, 1999: Islamic militants killed nine members of two families in Algeria's Ain Defla province and exploded a bomb in Khemis Miliana killing four people.

March 4, 1999: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed three U.S. citizens affiliated with U.S. organizations supporting the environment and protection of indigenous rights. In southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish suicide bomber killed herself and wounded three civilians outside a police station.

March 13, 1999: A firebomb attack on a shopping center in Istanbul, Turkey killed 13 people.

April 5, 1999: The PKK claimed responsibility for an aborted attack against a Turkish governor in southeastern Turkey that killed the bomber and a teen-age passerby.

April 8, 1999: A PKK suicide bomber detonated explosives in front of a provincial governor's car in southeastern Turkey killing himself and the driver of the car.

April 12, 1999: An Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah roadside explosive device in southern Lebanon.

April 27, 1999: The Intercontinental Hotel in Athens, Greece, was bombed, killing a Greek woman.

May 3, 1999: An Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah roadside bomb in southern Lebanon.

May 17, 1999: Islamic militants killed two shepherds in the Algerian village of Moulay Slissen.

May 18, 1999: Islamic militants slashed the throats of six children and one adult in the Algerian village of Bekkar in Medea province.

May 20, 1999: The Red Brigades purportedly claimed responsibility for the shooting death of a senior adviser to Italy's Labor Minister outside his home in Rome.

May 22, 1999: Islamic militants killed 10 people in an Algerian village near Medea.

May 25, 1999: A car bomb exploded in central Algiers killing three people.

May 30, 1999: Suspected Islamic militants killed at least six people at a fake roadblock near the Algerian town of Ain Oussera. In Algiers, a parcel bomb exploded killing one person.

June 2, 1999: A Kurdish suicide bomber killed two Turkish soldiers in southeastern Turkey.

June 4, 1999: Islamic militants killed at least 19 members of the same family in Bou Hanifa, near Mascara, in Algeria.

June 6, 1999: Islamic militants killed five people at a fake roadblock near Birtouta, just south of the Algerian capital.

June 8, 1999: Gunmen fired into a courtroom in Sidon, Lebanon killing three judges and a prosecutor.

June 9, 1999: An Israeli soldier was killed by Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon.

June 11, 1999: An armed group killed 14 people in an attack on the Algerian village of Sidi Naamane.

June 24, 1999: Two Israelis were killed in a Hezbollah Katyusha attack on northern Israel.

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