Terrorists often targeted the families of members of government security services. Otherwise, attacks against foreigners in Algeris decreased in 1996. Algerian extremists are believed to be behind a deadly bombing of a Paris commuter train in which four persons died and some 80 other passengers were wounded. Elsewhere in North Africa, there were few terrorist incidents. In Lebanon, the security situation improved as the government continued its efforts to expand the rule of law to more of the country.
Lebanese courts are increasingly active in prosecuting terrorists.
One was convicted of terrorist attacks on Kuwaiti interests in Beirut in the early 1990s, and two others for the car-bombing death of the brother of a senior Hizballah official. Terrorist group, especially Hizballah, continued to operate with relative impunity in large areas of Lebanon, and Beirut's southern suburbs. This site seeks to provide a summary of the most prominent groups who have terrorist designs in the Middle East. For this reason, the site has been broken into separate pages, according to country, so as to create a more organized view of terrorist groups throughout the regions listed.