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- Israeli businessman Nachum Manbar was sentenced to 16 years in prison for selling chemical weapons materials to Iran. (AP, 7/16/98)
- A Spanish judge sent to jail eight senior officials from the publishing company Orain, indicted for belonging to and collaborating with the Basque armed group ETA. (Bloomberg, 7/21/98)
- France charged four Algerians said to be members of Takfir Wal Hijra, a breakaway from Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (GIA) with terrorist offenses. (AFP, 7/24/98)
- Turkish police arrested 12 people in the southern city of Gaziantep whom they suspect of acting as an urban wing of the separatist terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). (Reuters, 7/29/98)
- An Egyptian court sentenced 28 militants from the banned terrorist group Gama'a al-Islamiya to three to 15 years in jail on charges of plotting to rob gold shops and kill state officials, possessing weapons and explosives, financing militant activities and membership in the organization which seeks to overthrow the government. (Reuters, 8/8/98)
- Egyptian police charged 21 members of the banned Islamic extremist group Al-Qotbiyun with plotting to assassinate public figures. (AFP, 8/11/98)
- An Israeli court sentenced Palestinian Atia Abu Asad to two life sentences for the killing of three Israelis in two shooting attacks in May and July 1994. (Reuters, 8/13/98)
- Law enforcement officials in Tirana, Albania, raided several alleged terrorist safe houses and arrested 10 foreign nationals believed to be linked to terror attacks in Egypt. Authorities found bulletproof vests, fake passports, maps, radio transmitters and electronic devices at the houses. (AP, 8/22/98)
- A mass trial of 138 alleged Algerian Islamic militants is underway in France. Suspected of being members or sympathizers of the GIA, they are charged with arms trafficking and setting up networks to support GIA terrorists. (Reuters, 9/2/98)
- Britain and Ireland passed anti-terrorist legislation making it easier to convict people of belonging to terrorist organizations and making it a crime for British-based exile groups to conspire to cause violence abroad. (AP, 9/3/98)
- German officials arrested engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab, 63, suspected of selling nuclear technology to Iraq, including construction plans for a uranium enrichment plant. (AP, 9/25/98)
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