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Hamas creates external intelligence arm For the first time since it was founded in 1987, the Hamas movement has formed an external intelligence service meant to garner co-operation with Arab... 29-Jan-2010 Wary China watches Taliban resurgence Like other Eurasian governments, the Chinese authorities have been watching the resurgence of the Taliban with unease. They recall how the movement supported the creation... 28-Jan-2010 Assessing Ahmadinejad's closed circle "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are," the saying goes and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second cabinet surely... 26-Jan-2010 US urges Yemen to take on Al-Qaeda There have many reports in the media in recent months about the increasing importance of Yemen as a base for Al-Qaeda extremists, who are facing... 25-Jan-2010 IMU looks to return to its roots The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) was founded by militant commander and former Soviet paratrooper Jumma Namangani and political leader Tahir Yuldash in 1998. ... 25-Jan-2010 Turkey: women's work is in the home? Turkey's experience of government under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP) since 2002 provides a case with which to study the... 18-Jan-2010 Iran's plan to combat sanctions Iran has a comprehensive plan to counter potentially punitive measures should nuclear talks with Western powers result in failure. Support for imposing harsher sanctions against... 18-Dec-2009 Afghan and Pakistani influence rocks GCC Analysts regularly surmise that some among the Iranian expatriate communities of the Gulf Co-operation Council are a potential fifth column that could destabilise the Gulf... 18-Dec-2009 Europe's emerging solutions to radical Islam Africa and South Asia's export of three products - immigrants, political Islam and Salafi ideologies - has shaped Europe's approach to national security and public... 18-Dec-2009 Armenia sets out on the Turkish path The foreign ministers of Armenia and Turkey signed a series of protocols on 10 October, marking a historic breakthrough in relations between the two states.... 15-Dec-2009 Is Egypt under threat from democracy? While the democratic struggle in Iran is an ongoing Western concern, the collective attention of the West is starting to focus on the next election... 09-Dec-2009 Iran-Oman relations: great leap forward? In 2008, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reportedly stated that the relationship between Iran and Oman seemed poised for a huge leap forward. Then, on... 26-Nov-2009 Iran's Shia policy keeps Pakistan on side Iran's policy towards Pakistan has been fundamentally different from its approach to its neighbouring Arab countries. Iran has a strategic interest in Pakistan's territorial integrity... 13-Nov-2009 Beyond belief: Iran's captive clergy Despite the expectations of the Iranian opposition, Iraq's four highest-ranking Shia religious authorities, including Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, did not comment on the controversial 12... 10-Nov-2009 Assessing Turkish foreign policy under AKP Turkey's ties with its neighbours have been transformed since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002. Some analysts have described... 06-Nov-2009 Status quo blocks Western Sahara solution On 11-12 August 2009, Moroccan delgations and representatives from the Polisario Front, a rebel movement working for the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco, met... 05-Nov-2009 A case of dual use: Iran's free zones The former president of Iran, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, envisioned Iran's Free and Special Economic Zones (F and SEZ) as a means of increasing the... 23-Oct-2009 Paradoxes of Egyptian-Saudi relations During the 1960s, Egypt and Saudi Arabia fought an eight-year proxy war in Yemen so fierce that Egypt repeatedly deployed chemical weapons against its Saudi-backed... 12-Oct-2009 Jumblatt turns down the heat on Druze The year 2004 marked an unexpected turn by Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze religious community, against his longtime patrons in Damascus and its allies... 25-Sep-2009 Iraqi Kurds elect new prime minister On 16 September, the parliament of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq elected Barham Salih as the region's new prime minister. According to Iraqi ... 24-Sep-2009 Cash woes overshadow education in UAE The global economic downturn has taken a heavy toll on the Dubai economy. Yet its speed and severity means the emirate's slump has not been... 24-Sep-2009 Solving Russia's Tatar-Bashkir conundrum A large majority of Russians believe the Kremlin should loosen its control over regional governments according to an opinion poll conducted in mid-June 2009 by... 24-Sep-2009 Tehran's nuclear perspective Viewed from the United States and Israel, the controversy over Iran's nuclear programme seems insoluble. Despite US President Barack Obama's diplomatic opening to Iran, the... 24-Sep-2009 Bashar manages his taxing inheritance Despite numerous coups d'état in the past, Syria's political system today is stable. Indeed, since Hafez Assad seized power in November 1970, politics in Syria... 24-Sep-2009 Iran and Russia face times of trouble Speculation about a significant increase in Russo-Iranian defence co-operation heightened in late July when the Iranian Mehr News Agency announced that the two countries would... 10-Sep-2009 Al-Qaeda brings Leaderless Jihad to book A group claiming to speak for Al-Qaeda publishes an Arabic language magazine called The Vanguard of Khorasan . The June issue (volume 14) containing ... 27-Aug-2009 Grand ayatollahs focus on regime legitimacy In the days following Iran's contentious 12 June presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani travelled to the city of Qom, Iran's theological centre, to... 27-Aug-2009 Muslim majority has Bosnia in the balance A leadership challenge has forced members of the main Bosniak (ethnic Bosnian Muslim) party, the Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije: SDA), at its... 21-Aug-2009 Arab and Islamic investment in Africa The past year has been a difficult one for Africa, not only in terms of the end of the global commodities boom that underpinned so... 20-Aug-2009 Islamists and the succession in Egypt Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 28-year reign has been expected to end imminently for some time. The 81-year-old's rule has reached its final stages and the... 20-Aug-2009 The future of GCC integration In May, the London-based, pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi delivered a bleak assessment of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) progress on the 28th anniversary of ... 10-Aug-2009 Libya lightens up on Islamic alternatives Dozens of boys and young men mill around the cavernous hall of the Muslim University madrassah each day in Zliten, a Sufi shrine town in... 28-Jul-2009 The West and Hamas/Fatah split By now the process has become familiar. Every few months Egyptian middlemen host a round of talks between the bitterly divided Palestinian factions. Sometimes, these... 27-Jul-2009 Conciliatory Karzai eases faction friction United States policy and most outside assessments of Afghanistan focus primarily on the international effort to defeat an Islamist insurgency led by the Taliban movement... 24-Jul-2009 Al-Qaeda's administration of savagery On 8 April 2009, Arab media reported that Saudi security forces had arrested 11 men in the southern part of the kingdom. The men were... 23-Jul-2009 |
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