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Ceasefires in Gaza have historically been characterised as brief periods of comparative calm before renewed outbreaks of hostilities.
18-Jul-2008
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West African drugs shipments rise
Up to nine foreign nationals were detained by police in Sierra Leone following the seizure of between 600 and 700 kg of cocaine from ...
18-Jul-2008
*Definitely, maybe - Verifying North Korean denuclearisation
On 27 June 2008, North Korea blew up the cooling tower of its plutonium production reactor at Yongbyon. The most public act to date in...
18-Jul-2008
Indian nuclear deal splits politics
The uneasy marriage of convenience between India's Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the Left Front finally broke down on 9 July. The Left ...
18-Jul-2008
*Breaching the peace - Will the Hamas-Israel ceasefire hold?
Ceasefires in Gaza have historically been characterised as brief periods of comparative calm before renewed outbreaks of hostilities. However, the announcement on 19 June of...
18-Jul-2008
*Mending fences - Changing trends in Kashmiri militancy
Last month's violent protests led by Islamist groups in Indian-administered Kashmir culminated in the resignation of chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on 7 July and...
17-Jul-2008
*Iran launches dual-purpose missiles
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on 9 and 10 July held two sets of military exercises in the central part of the country ...
18-Jul-2008
Colombian hostage rescue marks blow to the FARC
An operation by Colombian security forces on 2 July 2008 resulted in the rescue of 15 hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...
18-Jul-2008
Turkish 'deep state' ultra-nationalists charged
Following months of investigations, Istanbul's chief prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin announced the indictment of 86 suspected members of the 'Ergenekon network' on 14 July. ...
18-Jul-2008
*Abkhazia severs ties with Georgia
The Georgian separatist region of Abkhazia severed all ties with Tbilisi on 7 July, following a series of explosions in the secessionist republic. The...
18-Jul-2008
*High resolution - Trying to tame Somalia's piracy problem
On 2 June 2008 the UN Security Council (UNSC) approved Resolution 1816, permitting mandated countries to enter Somali waters for the purpose of combating piracy....
17-Jul-2008
*On thin ice - Chechen stability hinges on president
The fighting that has blighted the Russian Republic of Chechnya since the onset of the First Chechen War in 1994 has diminished significantly in recent...
17-Jul-2008
*Open sesame - Risk from Russia's closed nuclear cities
Russia's nuclear sector has recently gone through dramatic transformations that are hard to rationalise. Only four years ago, the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), the...
17-Jul-2008
*Unsafe haven - Turkey damages Kurdish rebels in Iraq
Since late March 2008, when the spring thaw freed up the mountain passes in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (Partiya...
17-Jul-2008
*In deep water - Nigeria's battle to secure its oil infrastructure
Insurgent activity in the Niger Delta has entered a new phase, following an attack on Shell's deepwater Bonga oilfield by the Movement for the Emancipation...
17-Jul-2008
*Fourth dimension - US revives its Latin American fleet
In April 2008, the United States announced it was re-establishing its Fourth Fleet, which had been deactivated since 1950. Admiral Gary Roughead, United States chief...
14-Jul-2008
*Stricken Kiev - Ukraine emerges as drug trafficking hub
The traditional route for opiates being trafficked from Afghanistan towards Turkey and Europe is through Iran, Pakistan and central Asia. However, increased seizures of heroin...
15-Jul-2008
*Phoenix potential - The Zemun Clan's ongoing influence
On 12 March 2003, Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic was killed by a high-powered sniper rifle as he moved from his limousine into the government building....
15-Jul-2008
*In denial - Is Indonesia's security policy working?
"Indonesia is certainly a safer country today than it was four years ago, when we were elected," Jusuf Kalla, Indonesia's 66-year-old vice-president, told Jane's...
25-Jun-2008
*Playing the Games - Sport and politics take to the field in Asia
George Orwell claimed in 1945 that "serious sport is war minus the shooting". It may be an exaggeraton, but the phrase highlights an oft-neglected issue...
02-Jul-2008
*Paradise lost - violent crime in the Caribbean
The Caribbean's image as a holiday paradise is belied by rising rates of violent crime across the region. Data published by the UN Office on...
23-Jun-2008
*The Italian job - the diversification of Italian crime
While the majority of national and international attention is focused on Italy's four main mafia groupings (Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita),...
17-Jun-2008
*Arctic summit seeks to head off territorial disputes
The Arctic Ocean Conference was held from 27-29 May in Greenland in the hope of creating a structure for settling territorial claims over the ...
12-Jun-2008
*Chávez calls for Colombian rebels' surrender
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on 8 June called for Colombia's left-wing insurgent Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia: FARC) to ...
12-Jun-2008
Uganda talks tough to the LRA
Uganda is "ready and prepared to go and destroy" the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), President Yoweri Museveni warned on 5 June. Speaking in ...
12-Jun-2008
US-Iraq treaty plan sparks unease
Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 8 June that Iraq would not be used as a base from which to ...
12-Jun-2008
*Recouping losses - Fiji's regime considers its future
In December 2006, Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF) head Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, also known as Frank, staged the island state's fifth coup since its...
12-Jun-2008
*Turkish speaker calls for curb on court
Turkey needs a complete constitutional and parliamentary overhaul, including curtailing the powers of the Constitutional Court, said Parliamentary Speaker Koksal Toptan on 7 June ...
12-Jun-2008
US launches air strike on Pakistani border
The Pakistani army condemned a "completely unprovoked and cowardly" air strike on 11 June by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan on a paramilitary checkpost ...
12-Jun-2008
Sino-Indian talks fail to reach agreement
Pranab Mukherjee, India's foreign affairs minister, arrived in China on 4 June for a four-day visit. During the visit, Mukherjee's first trip to China ...
12-Jun-2008
*Middle ground - Lebanon plays buffer as Syria and Israel simmer
The simultaneous announcements in Syria and Israel on 21 May that both countries have been engaged in secret peace talks for more than a year...
12-Jun-2008
*Mass mobilisation - The rise of Iran's paramilitary enforcer
Alarge, omnipresent paramilitary organisation with multi-faceted roles, the Basij is the eyes and ears of Iran's Islamic regime. Under the tutelage of the Islamic Revolutionary...
12-Jun-2008
*No-go no more - The battle for Sadr City
Slow encroachment by the Iraqi and United States militaries into Baghdad's Sadr City suburb from 2007 culminated in major operations in March to May 2008....
12-Jun-2008
*Air time - increasing China's aerial range
Much media attention has focused on the possibility of a Chinese aircraft carrier. Such an acquisition would have obvious strategic benefits for China in projecting...
12-Jun-2008
Walk the line - Myanmar opposition group backs constitution
"Something is better than nothing," says Tu Ja, the third ranking member of Myanmar's Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), when asked why the group is ...
12-Jun-2008
*The quiet American - tracing the whereabouts of Adam Gadahn
As noted by a growing chorus of observers, from seasoned intelligence analysts to novice onlookers, the quality of recent Al-Qaeda videos has declined considerably. This...
12-Jun-2008
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