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*Red storm rising - India's intractable Maoist insurgency
While discussion of the threat posed to India by radical Islamist violence tends to dominate security assessments, the country's Maoist insurgency has been steadily expanding...
15-May-2008
*Jihadist paradise - Yemen's terrorist threat re-emerges
There have been seven significant attacks on Westerners or foreign oil infrastructure in Yemen since the 15 September 2006 quadruple suicide bombing attack on two...
15-May-2008
*Endangered species - Al-Qaeda in Iraq adapts to survive
The demise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and affiliated movements is being heralded by a range of respected counter-insurgency experts. For instance, in an ...
16-Apr-2008
*Rebel with a pause - Sadr under pressure as truce is renewed
Moqtatda al-Sadr leads a movement named after his father, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, a populist Shia leader killed by Iraq's Baathist regime in February 1999....
13-Mar-2008
*Kurds and pay - Examining PKK financing
Turkey launched a week-long, 10,000-strong ground incursion into nothern Iraq on 22 February. The invasion was designed to curtail the activities of the Workers' Party...
13-Mar-2008
*Delta blues - Nigeria's freelance oil militants
After an almost seven-month decrease in violence, early 2008 has seen renewed attacks in the Niger Delta region. The year began with an attack on ...
18-Feb-2008
*Baby boomers - A new generation of Libyan jihadists
The reported death of Abu Laith al-Libi on 20 January once again highlighted the role of Libyan jihadists, one of the most dynamic of the ...
14-Feb-2008
*Wa and peace - The UWSA and tensions in Myanmar
Fighting broke out in Myanmar's southern Shan State close to the mountainous border with Thailand on 3 December. The clash near the town of Mong ...
14-Feb-2008
*Militant mire - Battling insurgency in northeast India
In November 2007, the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) launched another series of counter-insurgency operations against anti-Indian groups who shelter in the country's remote northwestern hills. The...
17-Jan-2008
*Cashing up - Funding the Basque battle for separatism
The Basque Homeland and Freedom organisation (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna: ETA) is currently suffering from financial pressure and government arrests. After Herri Batasuna, the alleged 'political...
17-Jan-2008
*Hanging Chad - Rebels, oil and intervention
The intensification in clashes in eastern Chad in late November 2007 highlighted the problems facing the proposed international force for Chad and the Central African...
17-Jan-2008
*Rebel rabble - Darfur's fragmenting insurgency
The insurgency in Sudan's vast Darfur region has become an increasingly complicated affair. A multitude of factions have emerged as the main rebel groups have...
05-Dec-2007
*Sunni rising - The growth of Sunni militancy in Lebanon
Jihadist groups are on the rise in Lebanon. There were multiple bomb attacks by suspected Sunni militants in 2007 and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)...
05-Dec-2007
*Tanker terror - The unfounded fear of liquefied gas ships
The fear that liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers could be used in a devastating terrorist attack is misplaced. Technological analysis of the threat has been...
15-Nov-2007
*Northern exposure - The next stage in Sri Lanka's war
Having won a convincing campaign in the east of the country, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) is now turning its attention to the north. The ...
15-Nov-2007
*Blasts from the past - Mexican guerrillas threaten energy security
Mexican governments are used to dealing with a multitude of security threats. Since Mexico held its first free and fair presidential elections in 2000, successive...
13-Nov-2007
*Under siege - Attacks on coalition bases in Iraq
Coalition forward operating bases and other hardened locations have long been an attractive target for insurgent groups in Iraq. Both Sunni and Shia militants have...
18-Oct-2007
*Rogue missiles - Tracking MANPADS proliferation trends
A failed attempt by terrorists to shoot down an Israeli airliner in Kenya in November 2002 sparked an unprecedented international campaign to curb the proliferation...
18-Oct-2007
*Eastern promise - Sri Lankan troops turn Tigers back into guerrillas
The government's capture of the eastern Sri Lankan town of Thoppigala on 11 July has theoretically brought the entire east of the country back under...
20-Sep-2007
*Chem-bio cyber-class - Assessing jihadist chemical and biological manuals
The importance of the internet to international jihadists is well known. Most usefully and commonly used as a propaganda and communication tool, it is also...
16-Aug-2007
*Ruffling feathers - Will Turkey invade northern Iraq?
Turkey is once again undergoing preparations for a possible invasion of northern Iraq to disrupt the activities of the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (Partiya Karkaren...
16-Aug-2007
*On the offensive - Taking on Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Forced from much of Anbar province, Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has tried to regroup further north and east, especially in the demographically mixed areas of...
15-Aug-2007
*Feeding the Tiger - How Sri Lankan insurgents fund their war
The ethnic separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the only known insurgent organisation with its own army, navy and now even a rudimentary...
07-Aug-2007
*Arrested development - Jemaah Islamiyah down but not out
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) suffered a significant setback in June after Indonesian police arrested two of the group's leaders. The separate arrests of Ainul Bahri ...
19-Jul-2007
*Jihad online - The changing role of the internet
The rise of the internet as a central feature of the contemporary international jihadist movement has reduced the influence of organisations and enhanced the ...
16-Jul-2007
*Shifting focus - Jemaah Islamiyah's long-term agenda towards Islamism
Since the Bali bombings of 12 October 2002, the Indonesian government has launched a sustained and successful campaign against the regional terrorist group Jemaah ...
15-Jun-2007
*Shia backlash - Anti-coalition Sadrist factions in Iraq
Shia militants have emerged as a major threat to multinational forces in Iraq. Coalition fatalities were the fourth highest on record in May 2007, ...
15-Jun-2007
*Recruitment drive - Can Somalia attract foreign fighters?
In April, violence between the Ethiopian-backed forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and insurgents loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) intensified. ...
17-May-2007
*Radiological lessons - Radiation weapons beyond 'dirty bombs'
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Litvinenko (FSB/KGB-Retired) died from the effects of acute radiation poisoning on 23 November 2006. With him ought to die several misconceptions ...
15-May-2007
*Village violence - Thai insurgents heighten communal tensions
On the evening of 18 February 2007, Muslim separatist insurgents in southern Thailand launched their most effective wave of co-ordinated attacks in the conflict ...
01-May-2007
*Call to arms - Hizbullah's efforts to renew weapons supplies
Lebanon's Hizbullah organisation is establishing a new line of defence just north of Lebanon's southern border district patrolled by the UN Interim Force In ...
18-Apr-2007
*Fortress Olympics - Counting the cost of major event security
High-profile events such as the summer and winter Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup and Asian Games, have become among the pre-eminent global spectacles of ...
04-Apr-2007
*Unfriendly skies - Iraq's Sunni insurgents focus on air defence
'The downing of enemy aircraft sends a powerful message of reassurance and inspiration to insurgents and potential recruits' 'The volume and the weight of...
03-Apr-2007
*Militant moves - Indian terrorists' targeting moves south
Arrests of suspected Islamist militants in India in recent months have incited fears within the country's security circles that the threat picture there is ...
14-Mar-2007
*On the defensive - Rebels lose ground in southern Philippines
The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) has long been a thorn in the side of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), which has to ...
09-Mar-2007
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