Jane's Intelligence Review - Terrorism & Insurgency

Terrorism & Insurgency

*Trouble brewing - Three decades of insurgency in Assam
The northeast of India has been among the country's most restive regions for the past three decades. In particular, the state of Assam has been...
18-Jun-2009

*Path finder - Peru's military combats resurgent rebel group
Seventeen years after Peruvian insurgent leader Abimael Guzmán was captured, his Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) group is continuing to launch attacks in Peru's mountain and...
04-Jun-2009

*Nowhere to turn - The failing strategy of suicide terrorism
Suicide attacks have come to characterise jihadist campaigns in various theatres. From Bali to Baghdad, Jerusalem to Jalalabad, the images of suicide bombers, often accompanied...
14-May-2009

*Settling Sons - Sunni groups fear Iraqi government repression
The arrest of the Sons of Iraq leader, Adil al-Mashhadani, in Baghdad's Fadhil district on 28 March sparked fighting between local Sunni Arab citizens and...
07-May-2009

*Delta force - Nigerian militant group's aims remain blurred
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) sent out an email statement on 3 April írejecting an offer of amnesty from Nigerian...
16-Apr-2009

*Fresh troubles - Dissidents rise again in Northern Ireland
Two fatal attacks in three days in March highlighted the threat from hardline republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. While the 'dissident' republicans have proved...
02-Apr-2009

*The long goodbye - Closing time at Guantánamo Bay
New United States President Barack Obama has promised to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility by the end of January 2010. The closure highlights how...
12-Mar-2009

*Cornered Tigers - The LTTE evolves as guerrillas
The Sri Lankan military has destroyed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a conventional military force. Deprived of territory, the separatist group has...
11-Mar-2009

*Safe haven? Radical Islam's Scandinavian links
Radical Islamists are increasingly using Scandinavian countries for financing and logistical purposes. While Sweden and Norway have yet to uncover any serious domestic plots, Denmark...
13-Feb-2009

*Shoots of recovery - Israeli operation leaves Hamas weak but alive
The clash between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamia: HAMAS) and Israel that occurred in the Gaza Strip between 27 December and 18 January...
12-Feb-2009

*Safe haven? - Radical Islam's Scandinavian links
Radical Islamists are increasingly using Scandinavian countries for financing and logistical purposes. While Sweden and Norway have yet to uncover any serious domestic plots, Denmark...
04-Feb-2009

*Tribal tribulations - The Pakistani Taliban in Waziristan
Pakistan's once little-known Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) region has steadily risen to international prominence following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. Of the seven...
13-Jan-2009

*Generation games: Basque separatists fight for ascendency
Basque separatist group Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) is at its weakest point since it was established in 1959. Nearly 800 ETA operatives are now behind...
13-Jan-2009

*In the line of fire - Could Mumbai happen again?
Shortly after 2100 local time (1530 GMT) on 26 November 2008, an inflatable dinghy slipped into the fishing port on the west coast of Mumbai. ...
11-Dec-2008

*General disorder: Ethnicity and resource conflict in DRC
Laurent Nkunda appeared to be withdrawing his rebel fighters from two battlefronts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in early December as newly appointed UN...
04-Dec-2008

*Fight and flight - The LTTE's air cargo ambitions
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is losing its war for an independent state in Sri Lanka. Since the effective resumption of the conflict...
13-Nov-2008

*No peace to Moro - Agreement with Philippine militants collapses
A final peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) now looks remote. On 4 August 2008, the Philippine Supreme...
17-Oct-2008

*Insider knowledge - Former member profiles Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) is perhaps the world's largest transnational party operating under a united global leadership. The organisation is dedicated to establishing an expansionist pan-Islamist...
03-Oct-2008

*Illegal tender - funding Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Algeria's Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat - GSPC) joined Al-Qaeda in October 2006, in the hope...
16-Sep-2008

*Misspent youth- Somalia's Shabab insurgents
The Shabab, Somalia's most infamous insurgent group, has until now avoided effective scrutiny. Little is known about it, even though it operates in a generally...
01-Sep-2008

*Fight the future - The beginning of the end for the FARC?
On 2 July, Colombian army troops disguised as an international humanitarian mission achieved a major operational success when they duped a group of insurgents from ...
14-Aug-2008

*Southern comfort - Thai insurgency falters
After four years of strategic mismanagement and repeated tactical humiliations, Thailand's security forces appear finally to have checked the rise of the Malay-Muslim separatist insurgency ...
30-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

*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

*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

*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

*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

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