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States navigate the running water issue Oil is not the only natural resource that matters in Iraq. Since the rule of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez Al-Assad in Syria in... 19-Mar-2010 Iraqi Kurdistan opposition raises its profile The strong showing by opposition parties in Kurdish elections on 25 July has ushered in a new era of power struggles within Iraqi Kurdistan and... 02-Mar-2010 The Turkey-Russia alignment of alienation Despite Turkey's position as a country with a Muslim-majority population, relations between Turkey and Russia continue to improve. The two governments have overcome their past... 02-Mar-2010 Challenges ahead for US navy and GCC Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff was Commander at United States Naval Forces Central Command from 2007 to 2008 where he oversaw all naval combat, combat support, and... 02-Mar-2010 French Muslims suffer suspicious minds Although Muslims have lived in France for centuries, it was immigration in the 20th and 21st centuries that resulted in the country having the ... 19-Feb-2010 The politics of Iran's clerical ranking In early January, the Iranian clerical-political authorities from the 'Society of the Theological Instructors and Scholars of The Qom Seminary' announced that they do not... 19-Feb-2010 Green light for Iran's non-violent opposition With the new political climate in Iran, Persian speakers have made frequent visits to the Persian-language web pages of the Center for the Study of... 18-Feb-2010 Iran's architect of change in the IRGC Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of Iran's elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), was appointed to his role in September 2007 by supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali... 12-Feb-2010 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 |
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