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North Caucasus insurgents shift focus
The various insurgent and terrorist groups in the North Caucasus, while still operationally and often ideologically distinct, are adopting an increasingly homogenous strategy built around...
02-Jul-2009
Crimea's Tatar renaissance
Ukraine's Crimean Tatars were deported en masse by the Russians to Central Asia in 1944 after being accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany during the...
20-Feb-2009
Azerbaijani leader brushes off opposition
On 15 October 2008, Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan's incumbent president, won a second five-year term with nearly 89 per cent of the votes. None of the...
18-Dec-2008
Russian Islam find its voice
What does it mean to be a Russian Muslim? To many, this is still as much an ethnic as religious distinction, reflecting a basic division...
22-Oct-2008
A turning point in Ingushetia
On 31 August, one of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov's most outspoken critics died minutes after being arraigned by special police forces at Nazran airport upon...
26-Sep-2008
Turkey's changing landscape under the AKP
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP), which came to power in November 2002, is often credited as a liberal party....
30-May-2008
Looking to 2020: Azerbaijan's military aspirations
Although much of the April 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest was dominated by a political and geopolitical dispute with Russia over the Georgian and Ukrainian...
23-Apr-2008
*Wahhabism in the Balkans
The discovery of a 'terrorist training camp' on the outskirts of the southern Serbian (Sandzak) town, Novi Pazar, in March 2007, sent shockwaves throughout Serbia...
14-Jan-2008
The Khmer Islam: regional security threat?
International attention seldom focuses on Cambodia's Muslim community, or the 'Khmer Islam' in official terminology. Estimates of its size range from 321,000 to 700,000 people, ...
10-Oct-2007
Al-Qaeda's ultimatum to Iran
Hojjatoleslam Hesham Seimori, a mid-ranking Shia cleric at the Fateme Zahra mosque in the Iranian city of Ahvaz in Khuzestan province near the Iraqi border,...
08-Oct-2007
Iranian succession and the IRGC
On 15 August, the US government announced that it is preparing to designate Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organisation. If...
03-Sep-2007
Foreign influences on US Muslims
The US is home to a diverse Muslim community of between four and five million people. Jane's examines how the influence of foreign-born and ...
06-Aug-2007
Turkey's minority question and the EU
When Turkish-Armenian peace activist Hrant Dink was killed on 19 January, the country and particularly Istanbul, where the crime occurred, fell into a state ...
17-Apr-2007
Iraq: where do the dollars go?
President George W Bush's administration and other observers recognise the importance of reconstructing Iraq's economy to create conditions conducive to a sustained reduction in ...
19-Feb-2007
Re-engaging the Palestinians
With Washington struggling to reclaim its credibility in the Arab world, President George W Bush's administration is signalling renewed interest in the long-stalled Palestinian-Israeli ...
13-Feb-2007
Moscow walks a fine line in Volga republics
Tatarstan and Bashkortostan have always enjoyed a greater level of autonomy than many other subjects of the Russian Federation. Jane's examines the factors that ...
23-Jan-2007
Islamic scholars' power to sway opinion
The growing importance of the Muslim community occurred in the West largely as a result of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, ...
20-Nov-2006
Georgia's striving Muslims
Representatives of Georgia's Muslim minorities met in the Turkish city of Erzurum on 20 June to discuss establishing a pan-Muslim political party in Georgia. ...
28-Jul-2006
Understanding Arab media analysis
Arab media analysis is preoccupied with issues of prestige, unity and tradition, which are most often expressed in terms of unalterable 'sanctities' (national or ...
24-Jul-2006
Analysing jihadist forums
No airtight definition of 'jihadist forum' or comprehensive list of such forums exists. The London-based Arabic-language forum, Al-Tajdid, a London-based outlet, features a preponderance...
20-Jul-2006
The ambitions of Russia's Muslims
Eurasianism became a fairly popular creed upon the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991. It had first emerged in the 1920s among Russian...
02-Feb-2006
Which way will Tirana turn?
Four months into Prime Minister Sali Berisha's new administration in Albania, Western diplomats will be relieved that Tirana's foreign policy has not veered dramatically Middle...
30-Jan-2006
Sunni Islam's radical offshoot: Wahhabism
As with many other religions, Islam has fragmented into factions led by devotees convinced that their personal interpretation of the divinity's intention was the only...
10-Jan-2006
Arab commentators try to unpick London bombing conundrum
Much ink has been spilt on the implications of the London attacks for the 'war on terrorism' and the position of outspoken radical ideologues ...
28-Jul-2005
Egypt's coming non-elections
As the general elections scheduled for November draw closer, the political scene in Egypt has gone through a series of looking-glass transformations, symbolising the ...
28-Jul-2005
Tensions rise on India-Bangladesh border
Simmering tension between India and Bangladesh has peaked following the recent alleged torture and brutal murder of an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officer ...
21-Jun-2005
Arab intelligence services under scrutiny
For decades, intelligence and security services in the Arab world have been untouchable, accountable to no one but the political leaderships that depended on ...
21-Jun-2005
Fatah's uncertain future
Fatah, the dominant force in Palestinian politics for the last half-century, is in grave danger of falling apart and being overtaken by Hamas and ...
29-Apr-2005
Saudis host counterterrorism conference
In the setting of a sumptuous palace, whose US$305 million construction bill furnished an interior decor designed to inspire awe, what was billed as the...
24-Feb-2005
Balochistan's tribes and pipelines
The Indian and Pakistani governments are engaged in a necessarily slow process of rapprochement to build a gas pipeline to transport Iranian gas through Pakistan,...
23-Feb-2005
Palestine and Israel - the hard road ahead
It is a cruel twist of fate that as the Middle East holds its breath in expectation of a breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the...
28-Jan-2005
Iraq's tenuous hope for stability
THE violence in Iraq has intensified dramatically since the 28 June handover of political authority to the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. By...
23-Dec-2004
Militants on the ropes in Algeria
ALGERIA'S dwindling band of Islamic militants appear to be fighting a losing battle against the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Recent intelligence suggests that Algeria's...
26-Nov-2004
After Fallujah
NOW that the military operation in Fallujah is winding down, and appears to have reached a conclusion, it is worth considering some of the potential...
26-Nov-2004
Hijacking the Palestinian intifada
THE DEMISE of Yasser Arafat, who embodied the struggle for Palestinian statehood for four decades, may well ignite a potentially catastrophic internal power struggle that...
26-Nov-2004
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