Thirty-seven people, mainly police, were killed Thursday in two terrorist attacks in north and south Pakistan, local media reported. At least 29 people died in the southwestern province of Beluchistan when a remote-controlled car bomb went off in the town of Hub, as a bus carrying Chinese engineers and workers had just passed.

The White House has released portions of a classified intelligence report that says Al-Qaeda is regrouping and planning to increase its efforts to attack the United States.

Could Harry Potter be guarding the secrets of the British government's post 9/11 response to the terrorist threat" Judith Rauhofer of the University of Central Lancashire seems to think so.

A senior U.S. official says >Osama bin Laden ordered Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, to form a cell in 2005 to plot attacks outside of Iraq and make the United States his main target.

Ten people have been found dead after an explosion and fire in a cafe in the Russian city of Orsk, emergency officials said Monday. Authorities were trying to determine the cause of the late-night blast and fire in the city about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) southeast of Moscow, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said.

President Bush says pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely would put Americans at greater risk of another terrorist attack. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats have approved legislation that includes a timetable for a troop withdrawal because they say that would make the Iraqi government more accountable for its own security.

A multi-disciplinary panel of blast-related injury experts from eight countries that have recently experienced terrorist attacks examined and discussed their emergency medical response to blast events and identified common issues that could be used by others to enhance preparedness.

Police said Saturday a bomber, driving a truck loaded with bricks, detonated his explosives outside a police station in the predominantly Sunni district of Dora in southern Baghdad. Twenty people were killed in the blast, including at least 14 police officers.

Four years ago, Washington began military operations in Iraq. The stated goal of toppling Saddam Hussein to remove any danger of his developing weapons of mass destruction was quickly achieved. But stabilizing Iraq has proven more difficult. Insurgent attacks, sectarian conflict, and interference from neighboring states pose continuing challenges despite the country's success in holding democratic elections.