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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
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
Interpreting Taqiyya
The recent article by Raymond Ibrahim is in this author's opinion well-researched, factual in places but whose interpretation of taqiyya is ultimately misleading. It focuses...
12-Nov-2008
Islam's doctrines of deception
To better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic nature of the religion. According to sharia (Islamic law) every conceivable human act is categorised ...
26-Sep-2008
*Kolkata clashes and India's Muslims
A protest called by Muslim groups led to an explosion of violence on the streets of Kolkata, in West Bengal state, on 20 November and...
18-Dec-2007
Anbar's Sunni militias: fighting by proxy
On his trip to Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq's Anbar province in early September, President George W Bush touted the progress in this region as...
25-Sep-2007
'Émigré' Shia stress Iraqi identity
Iraq's Shia population is a deeply divided community, bisected by both interest politics (revolving around the distribution of resources) and identity politics (comprising religious, political...
27-Jul-2007
Changing meanings of jihad
A constantly evolving interpretation, influenced by prevailing political, social and economic conditions in Islamic societies, means that jihad is increasingly difficult to define. Jane's ...
26-Apr-2007
Pakistan: anchor of regional stability?
Despite its noisy politics and rowdy domestic scene, there is little likelihood of Pakistan imploding akin to Yugoslavia Pakistan has voiced an active interest...
20-Dec-2006
Prospects for Islamist domination in Mogadishu
Anything goes in lawless Somalia, from the survival of a national currency without a government or central bank to the defeat of a superpower ...
22-Jun-2006
Islam suffers from worsening image crisis in US
As the war in Iraq enters its fourth year and the fifth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks approaches, attitudes toward Islam in ...
08-May-2006
Politicised Islam grows in Serbia's Sandzak
The strategic Muslim-majority Sandzak region of Serbia and Montenegro, which borders Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, has seen a marked increase in politicised Islam over the past...
13-Mar-2006
Sharia law's place in Islam
The mainstream media's generic references to Sharia (Islamic law, from the Arabic shar'a: to prescribe) are invariably misguided and belie its true meaning. Although radical...
24-Feb-2006
Pervez' perils: the challenges facing Pakistan's leader
In spite of President General Pervez Musharraf's unassailable position as military ruler of Pakistan, his tenure is shadowed by the threat of political turmoil. Of...
21-Feb-2006
*The Sunni-Shia Divide
Some 88 per cent of the 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide are Sunnis, with the majority of the remainder Shias, except for about four million ...
09-Dec-2005
Arabs and the 'F-word'
"With each passing day, and with a fascinating ability, Iraq proves that it is the country best placed to expose the contradictions in our Arab...
30-Sep-2005
Nationwide bombings in Bangladesh
Bangladesh may have come in for increased levels of criticism over the past six months for failure to respond with sufficient vigour to the developing ...
30-Aug-2005
Washington's Middle East democracy dilemma
As far back as November 2003, US President George W Bush stated that Washington's longstanding support for autocratic regimes in the Middle East did ...
27-Jul-2005
Jordan's two faces of reform
On the surface, Jordan represents a bastion of peace and stability in an otherwise turbulent neighbourhood. Since assuming the throne in 1999, King Abdullah bin...
29-Jun-2005
Elections unlikely to bring change to Egypt
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a surprise announcement in February that he would allow other candidates to stand in the country's presidential elections in ...
29-Apr-2005
SPECIAL REPORTS - Arab commentators wrestle with elections
Anyone perusing Arab commentaries on the Iraqi election, particularly those written in the non-Iraqi press, is immediately confronted with a conundrum. That is, broadly speaking,...
28-Jan-2005
SPECIAL REPORT - Undercurrents of Sunni-Shi'a conflict
AS predicted (see After Fallujah, IAA December 2004), Sunni communities' growing unease over the potential rise of Shia power in Iraq appear to be taking...
23-Dec-2004
SPECIAL REPORTS - Through the eyes of the mujahideen
AS THE military operation in Fallujah appears to be approaching its military conclusion, jihadi traffic on the internet can shed some light on motivation of...
26-Nov-2004
An unaccustomed introspection
ONE OF the more interesting consequences of the Beslan massacre was the effect the atrocity - and intimations of Arab involvement - had on public...
29-Sep-2004
SPECIAL REPORT - Deep concerns over Saudi security
THE OIL is flowing and the House of Saud is not about to fall. Yet an intensifying murder campaign mounted by 'Al-Qaeda in the Arabian...
02-Aug-2004
SPECIAL REPORTS - 11 September report exposes failings
GIVEN the man-hours spent, people interviewed and simply the size of tome produced, commentators and analysts were expecting a great deal from the final report...
02-Aug-2004
SPECIAL REPORTS - Algerian jihad buckles under pressure
THE MOST powerful jihadi group in Algeria has been left reeling after its leader was killed and several of its high-ranking commanders were captured during...
28-Jun-2004
SPECIAL REPORTS - Chechnya: the start of a new conflict?
WHILE President Vladimir Putin repositioned his government's policies after 11 September 2001 so as to take advantage of the global effect of the White House's...
27-Jun-2004
Chechnya: the start of a new conflict?
While President Vladimir Putin repositioned his government’s policies after 11 September 2001 so as to take advantage of the global effect of the White House’s...
30-Apr-2004
Iraqi ?allies? cannot be trusted
During fierce fighting in Falluja, a flashpoint town west of Baghdad in Iraq’s explosive ‘Sunni triangle’, the 630-strong 2nd Battalion of the Iraqi Armed Forces...
30-Apr-2004
Militant sails at sunset
Coalition forces are trying to avoid a repeat of the events after the Taliban regime was dislodged from Afghanistan in 2001, when scores of Arab...
30-Mar-2004
Afghanistan?s deadly harvest
Intelligence agencies are now beginning to map out the links between this trade and terrorist finance. THE LATEST report of the United Nations International ...
26-Mar-2004
On leaving Gaza
The high profile tussle at the International Court of Justice hearings at the Hague on the legality of the Israeli ‘security barrier’ and the catalogue...
19-Mar-2004
The long reach of Saddam?s largesse
Documents published by the Iraqi independent daily newspaper Al-Mada on 25 January listed 270 companies, organisations and businessmen who received crude oil from Saddam Hussein’s...
19-Mar-2004
Iraq?s looming civil war
Iraq’s future remains increasingly unclear, indicating that the USA’s planning for the post-war period was far from comprehensive and failed to take into consideration, among...
19-Mar-2004
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