New research suggests political freedom and geographic factors contribute significantly to causes of terrorism, challenging the common view that terrorism is rooted in poverty.

Funerals were held Friday for the eight victims of Thursday night's terror attack at a Jerusalem yeshiva, or rabbinical seminary. VOA's Jim Teeple reports police imposed a security clampdown on Arab East Jerusalem where the Palestinian gunmen who carried out the attack lived.

At least 27 people have been injured in three explosions in southern Thailand, where Muslim separatists are fighting for an Islamic state. The bombs exploded in the parking lots of two hotels and at a discotheque in the town of Sungai Kolok, near the Malaysian border.

Pakistani police have released a photograph of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the killing of at least 139 people during the homecoming procession of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday.

At least 18 people have been killed and 10 wounded in a terrorist bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismailkhan, a police spokesman said.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States claimed a series of successes in battling Al-Qaeda: toppling the Taliban in Afghanistan; destroying training bases the Islamic regime had allowed Al-Qaeda to operate there; and arresting key aides to Osama bin Laden, including Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks.

German authorities say they have arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists for allegedly plotting bomb attacks on Frankfurt airport and a U.S. military base in Ramstein. Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said the threat had been "imminent."

Russia today marks the third anniversary of the Beslan hostage tragedy in which more than 330 people were killed, most of them children.

An Iraqi delegation headed to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to hold negotiations over fighting the al-Qaida terror network, a senior Iraqi official said.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says investigators have "got to the bottom of the cell" responsible for last week's attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow.

President George W. Bush said he appreciates the new British government's "strong response" to terrorist threats in London and Scotland that prompted the United States to tighten airport security and add air marshals to overseas flights.

The United States is increasing transportation security after a car bombing and other attempted terror attacks in Britain in recent days. The top U.S. security official says although he sees no links to any specific attacks in the United States, he is worried about what he calls terrorist copy cats.