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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 Angola government cracks down on Islam Government concern over the expansion of Islam in Angolan society was reported on 31 March 2009 by the Angola National News Agency ANGOP. The report... 25-Jun-2009 Chechen president turns to nation building While Moscow formally announced the end of its 'counter-terrorist operation' in Chechnya on 16 April, it is clear that the fighting is far from over.... 17-Jun-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... 15-Jun-2009 Forging Pakistan/Afghanistan links A flurry of bilateral negotiations have taken place between Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States and the fall... 28-May-2009 Deobandi groups and Ahl-e Hadith In Pakistan, both Ahl-e Hadith and Deobandi groups have acted as proxies of the Pakistani military, which used them to wage jihad in Kashmir and... 21-May-2009 Questions about Hizbullah unity The 12 February 2008 assassination in Damascus of Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah's long-time operations chief, was a major blow to the organisation. The killing exposed failures... 21-May-2009 Deobandi groups and Ahl-e Hadith In Pakistan, both Ahl-e Hadith and Deobandi groups have acted as proxies of the Pakistani military, which used them to wage jihad in Kashmir and... 18-May-2009 Saudi Arabia's king changes the guard saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud carried out a major reshuffle of key ministries and institutions on 14 February, including replacing nearly every ... 12-May-2009 Algeria and France: the quiet Salafists Salafism (salafiyya) is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary Islam. Its name derives from al-salaf al-sālih ('the pious predecessors') and stems from the ... 01-May-2009 Iran's gas swells economic frustration Located in Central Eurasia, its southern shore bounded by the Persian Gulf, the northern shore by the Caspian Sea, Iran covers a region that is... 27-Apr-2009 Lebanon's March 14 coalition faces test As Lebanon anticipates the next parliamentary election in June 2009, a lively domestic debate has emerged as to where the election results will take the... 17-Apr-2009 Leaders' mortality may sway Iraq's health US President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq is predicated on an assumption that Iraq's stability is durable. On 29 January 2009, General... 17-Apr-2009 Abu Sayyaf still holds Philippines to ransom On 15 January 2009, the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) seized three International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers - an Italian, Swiss and a Filipina... 16-Apr-2009 Securing a stable future for Ingushetia To mark his first 100 days in office, Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov gave interviews to Russian media in which he blamed his predecessor for bequeathing... 09-Apr-2009 Ahmadinejad fails to budget for dissent The global financial crisis has amplified Iran's economic woes in ways that have political implications for both the current government, which is facing a re-election... 03-Apr-2009 Iran's vibrant feminist movement The far right Islamist faction ('Osoolgarayan' or principlists), who are in the ascendency since the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, considers Iran's burgeoning... 27-Mar-2009 Persian Gulf security: in flux or crisis? The Persian Gulf security system is characterised by three enduring features. First is the vital importance of the region's oil and gas to the wellbeing... 25-Mar-2009 Turkish elections to test AKP influence Turkey will hold nationwide local elections on 29 March 2009, and 48 million registered voters are expected to go to the polls to elect mayors... 17-Mar-2009 Iran's influence heightens Cairo concerns "Iran threatens us with terrorism" announced a headline in Al-Gomhuria , a high-circulation Egyptian government newspaper on 5 March. The article criticised Iran's Deputy ... 16-Mar-2009 Bin Laden's history with Palestine Global jihadists have always had a deeply ambivalent attitude to Palestine. Their spiritual leader, Abdullah Azzam, was himself a West Bank-born Palestinian who fled to... 10-Mar-2009 Algerian Islamists' financing tactics From the early 1990s, the Armed Islamic Group, effectively made dormant since the early 2000s thanks to government efforts and internal strife, was the first... 10-Mar-2009 Turkey courts Iraq's energy-rich Kurds Relations between Turkey and Iraq underwent a transformation during 2008. Talks about energy co-operation were the main drivers behind closer collaboration, along with negotiations relating... 27-Feb-2009 Ethnic fault lines grow in Pakistan The ethnic divide in Pakistan has reflected the economic fortunes of the country's four provinces, which are linguistically and ethnically different. Balochistan (Balochis), the North... 27-Feb-2009 Ahmadinejad splits Iran's conservatives On 1 February 2009, the conservative wing of Iran's 290-member parliament (known as the Fraktion-e Usulgarayan in Persian) witnessed the establishment of a smaller group... 20-Feb-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 Why the race is on to rebuild Gaza As the smoke clears in Gaza and damage assessments of the three-week Israeli military campaign roll in, perhaps inevitably, comparisons are being drawn between Israel's... 20-Feb-2009 Salafis' social networking in Lebanon Salafis in Lebanon are a legitimate and officially recognised part of the domestic social fabric. They are Sunni Muslims who believe that the imitation of... 19-Feb-2009 Indoctrinated to Intervene: Iran's IRGC The political leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran is generally believed by both Iranian and foreign analysts to secure civilian control over the Islamic... 06-Feb-2009 Shifting populations In assessing the most important factors shaping international affairs over the next two decades, the authors of the United States National Intelligence Council's November 2008... 30-Jan-2009 Gulen movement: Turkey's third power Turkey's Fethullah Gulen Community (FGC), also known as the Gulen movement after its founder and leader Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim preacher, often escapes scholarly... 29-Jan-2009 Saudi extremism to Sahel and back More than 700 alleged militants linked to Al-Qaeda were arrested in Saudi Arabia during the first six months of 2008, according to the latest figures... 27-Jan-2009 Iran and Saudi Arabia's Shia In 1979 the world witnessed some of the most remarkable and unforeseen events in the modern history of Islam. The first was the February overthrow... 23-Jan-2009 Turkey's waning appetite for Europe When the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP) government took power in Turkey and vowed to pursue EU accession in 2002, there... 09-Jan-2009 Is Syria all talk and no action? On 27 September 2008, a suicide bomber driving a dark red suburban GMC car blew up his vehicle on a crossroads in southern Damascus, killing... 09-Jan-2009 |
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