Middle East
Kurdish Islamist Groups in Northern Iraq
November 25, 2008A spokesman of the Kurdish arm of al-Qaeda in Iraq recently announced the group’s intention to eliminate Iraq’s Kurdish leadership: “To the two Kurdish puppets, Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani, I swear by God that we have no...
Turkey and Iran Sign Accord on Natural Gas Cooperation
November 21, 2008Ankara and Tehran signed an accord strengthening agreements on developing Iran’s gas fields and transporting Iranian gas to Europe. With the agreement, Turkey secures the operation rights for three offshore gas fields in Iran's...
A Mujahideen Bleed-Through from Iraq? Part Three - The Case of Jordan
November 19, 2008
Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan has been a nation living in an uneasy relationship with the Sunni Islamist movement. With a population more than fifty-percent Palestinian, Jordan became an ever-more useful place for ...
The Neo-Zarqawists: Divisions Emerge between Jordan’s Salafist Militants
November 19, 2008On October 27 an open letter signed by a number of prominent Jordanian Salafists and warning of a new zealot takfiri group in Jordan circulated on jihadist web-forums (alhesbahweb.net, October 27; muslm.net, October 27)....
Iraq’s Jaysh al-Muslimin – Nationalists in an Islamist Resistance Movement
November 19, 2008
A recent interview with the spokesman of the Jaysh al-Muslimin in Iraq elicited mixed reactions from jihadi forum participants, many of whom commented on the issue of nationalism vs. Islamism as the focus of the Iraqi...
China’s Policy Toward Iran: Arms for Oil?
November 18, 2008Major powers deliberated on September 19 in Washington over a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran to curb its nuclear program, but deliberations ended with no firm commitments amid Chinese and Russian opposition to stronger...
Coalition Attack Brings an End to the Career of al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Second-in-Command
November 7, 2008The U.S. military scored one of its biggest tactical successes against al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) on October 5 by killing Abu Qaswarah, a man identified by both the U.S. military and the rebel Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) as the...
Iran’s Kurdish Militants Under Pressure from Joint Turkish-Iranian Assaults
November 7, 2008
Until recently, the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (Parti Jiyani Azadi Kurdistan – PJAK), an armed Kurdish separatist group active in Iran, was beginning to emerge as a genuine military irritant to Iran’s government, killing in...
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