An Israeli court sentenced two Hamas terrorists, Abdel Rahman Ghneimat and Jamal al-Hor, to life in prison for murdering eight Israeli civilians and three soldiers in attacks between 1995 and 1997. (Ha'aretz, 10/22/98)

Fifteen Kurds went on trial in France on suspicion of setting up fictitious businesses as a cover for recruiting and training terrorists for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). (Reuters, 10/28/98)

Sobhi Mahmoud Fayad, 33, was arrested in Paraguay for alleged membership in the terrorist group Hezbollah. Fayad is believed to be the main link between the Iranian Embassy in Brasilia and the Hezbollah structure in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. (Reuters, 10/28/98)

A Paris court sentenced two ETA Basque separatists to 10 years in prison for running a clandestine explosives factory in a villa in France. (Reuters, 10/30/98)

Switzerland expelled exiled Algerian Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) leader Ahmed Zaoui, 37, one of 20 radical Islamic leaders condemned to death in abstentia by an Algerian court on charges of supplying weapons from Europe to guerrillas in Algeria. Zaoui was expelled to Burkina Faso. (Reuters, 10/30/98)

Germany opened an investigation into radical Islamist Metin Kaplan's alleged plot to launch terrorist attacks in Turkey along with other leaders of Kaplan's German-based Islamic association Hilafet Devleti which seeks to replace Turkey's secular system with a religious state led by Kaplan, who calls himself the one Caliph of Islam. (Reuters, 11/5/98)

A German court convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Monika Haas, 50, for helping Palestinian terrorists hijack a Frankfurt-bound plane of German tourists in October 1977 and abetting the kidnap and murder of German industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer who was found dead the day after the hijacking ended. (Reuters, 11/16/98)

Eight suspected members of Algeria's banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) went on trial in France on charges of smuggling arms to FIS militants trying to overthrow the Algerian government. (Reuters, 11/23/98)

Germany's highest criminal court rejected an appeal against a 1997 verdict that Iranian intelligence ordered the assassination of Kurdish dissidents in Berlin. (Reuters, 12/9/98)

An Israeli military court sentenced Abdel Halim Balbisy to life imprisonment for driving two suicide bombers to the Beit Lid intersection, north of Tel Aviv, where they killed 22 people in January 1995. (AP, 12/28/98)

An Israeli court charged Palestinian-American businessman Jamil Sarsour with funneling money to Hamas from the U.S., using an Israeli bank account. The money was allegedly transferred to Adel Awadallah, a top Hamas mastermind of suicide bombings in Israel who was killed by Israeli forces in September 1998. (AP, 12/29/98)