Intelligence Review 

*Spying game - The Shabab's double agents in Somali intelligence
Throughout 2011, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) announced a series of defections of fighters from Islamist militant group the Shabab. Such defections are trumpeted as...
02-Feb-2012
*UPDATE: Shadow play - Boko Haram names political 'sponsors'
A wave of co-ordinated attacks on churches and government targets in Nigeria on 25 December 2011 underlined the growing threat from the Islamist militant group...
10-Jan-2012
Shadow play - Boko Haram names political 'sponsors'
Recent allegations that some Nigerian politicians have previously sponsored the militant group known as Boko Haram ostensibly suggest the violence in northeast Nigeria is a...
23-Dec-2011
*Attack of the drones - The dangers of remote-controlled aircraft
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on 28 September that it had disrupted a plot to attack the Pentagon and Capitol building with...
16-Dec-2011
*Filling the void - AQAP attempts a takeover in Yemen
Fighting for its credibility at a critical juncture, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is promoting itself as an integral part of a popular uprising...
16-Dec-2011
*Follow the leader - The FARC's future under Timochenko
For the first time in 47 years of fighting, Colombia's main insurgent group lost its commander-in-chief in combat on 4 November. Within days, the Revolutionary...
09-Dec-2011
*Pressure cooker - Central Asia faces upsurge in Islamist militancy
Speaking on the 10th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva told US troops at the...
05-Dec-2011
*Sunni disposition - AQI remains in the shadow of the US withdrawal
President Barack Obama announced on 21 October that the United States would fully withdraw its remaining soldiers from Iraq by the end of the year....
11-Nov-2011
*Rebel redux - South Sudan's rebel offshoot goes back to war
Around five months after a new conflict broke out in Sudan, there are few signs that a solution is imminent. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed ...
13-Oct-2011
*Shia strength - Iraqi militants adapt to the US drawdown
The US military suffered its heaviest monthly casualties in Iraq in three years in June, when 14 of its soldiers were killed in action. At...
30-Sep-2011
*Foreign exchange - the FARC and Venezuela
Since 2002, Venezuela has become a strategic rearguard area for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia: FARC), used to shelter...
06-Sep-2011
*The professionals - Separatism in southern Thailand
Among the most troublesome issues Thailand's new Puea Thai Party-led government will be forced to confront in the coming months is the chronic violence that...
10-Aug-2011
Prevention methods - Islamist reaction to UK counter-terrorism plan
The UK government unveiled its updated Prevent strategy for countering extremist radicalisation in June. Prevent, part of the wider CONTEST strategy, has been running for...
09-Aug-2011
*Global party - Assessing Hizb ut-Tahrir's worldwide influence
On 21 June, the Pakistani army announced that Brigadier Ali Khan, a senior officer based at the army's general headquarters in Rawalpindi, had been detained...
15-Jul-2011
*Reconciliation quest - Sri Lanka's security after the conflict
In the wake of the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009, Sri Lanka appears to have made progress...
15-Jul-2011
*Tribal Turks - Turkish jihadists travel to fight in Afghanistan
Turkey is making a significant contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Its officers commanded the force in 2002 and 2005 and...
17-Jun-2011
*Killer apps - The revolution in network terrorism
On 26 November 2008, a team of 10 well-trained and heavily armed Pakistani militants launched a sustained attack on the Indian city of Mumbai, killing...
16-Jun-2011
*Media fatigue - ISI embarks on propaganda campaign
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) has announced a propaganda offensive to attract more attention to its campaign of violence. The Sunni Islamist insurgent group...
20-May-2011
*Dead man's shoes - Al-Qaeda looks to a future without Bin Laden
In a statement released on 6 May, Al-Qaeda confirmed that its leader, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a United States raid on a compound...
19-May-2011
*Trouble in paradise - Islamist radicalism in the Maldives
Every year, around 600,000 tourists visit the Maldives, a small archipelago in the northern Indian Ocean that is blessed with excellent weather, beautiful beaches and...
15-Apr-2011
*Holy grails - Libya loses control of its MANPADS
In late February, photojournalists and television news teams began recording the first pictures of man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) that had been looted from Libyan...
15-Apr-2011
*Lords of disorder - LRA resists regional powers for two decades
As the Ugandan military remains distracted by other commitments, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) appears to be regrouping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
17-Mar-2011
*In the wings - Al-Qaeda and the Middle East uprising
The popular uprisings that ousted the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt and threatened to topple other Arab governments have left Al-Qaeda looking at least temporarily...
16-Mar-2011
*North and south: Cracks appear in Yemen's political facade
Since 2007, tensions between southern Yemenis and state security forces in the country's southern governorates have increased markedly. While southerners previously called for negotiations and...
17-Feb-2011
*Youth movement - Somalia's foreign fighters
In late November 2010, Somali militant Islamist group Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen released its latest video from the battlefields of Somalia. Like previous films, this one...
09-Feb-2011
*Rogue operator - David Coleman Headley on LeT
In October 2010, an important document surfaced: the 110-page report of Indian investigators' interrogation of David Coleman Headley, a US national of Pakistani descent and...
13-Jan-2011
*Enduring insurgency: New People's Army marches on
After a hiatus of more than a year, representatives of the Maoist movement and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) met in...
13-Jan-2011
*Rogue operator - David Coleman Headley on LeT
In October 2010, an important document surfaced: the 110-page report of Indian investigators' interrogation of David Coleman Headley, a US national of Pakistani descent and...
13-Jan-2011
*Lone wolf - The threat from independent jihadists
The threat of grass-roots terrorism in the West is attracting renewed interest in the wake of the November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood military base,...
09-Dec-2010
*The Suleiman affair - Radicalism and jihad in Tunisia
This December marks the fourth anniversary of clashes between Islamist militants and Tunisian security forces in the mountainous area near Ain Tebournouk in a stand-off...
09-Dec-2010
*Red Indians - India's Maoists increase IED attacks
The protracted insurgency waged by the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) across wide swathes of central and northern India has come to resemble...
12-Nov-2010
*Preventive medicine - The UK's changing approach to radicalism
Most governments faced with terrorist threats from Islamist extremists now recognise that the problem cannot be overcome by arrests and prison terms alone. The root...
29-Oct-2010
*Independent jihad - Al-Qaeda incites grass-roots militants
While the phenomenon of what counter-terrorism analysts variously describe as 'home-grown' or 'grass-roots' terrorism is already a facet of the contemporary jihadist threat, Al-Qaeda appears...
15-Oct-2010
*Rebel alliance - Foreign policy among Uganda's Islamist forces
For many years, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group currently based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been consigned to the...
08-Oct-2010
*Urban planning - The campaign for Kandahar
The battle to secure the former Taliban powerbase of Kandahar has become crucial to the success or failure of the current counter-insurgency effort in Afghanistan....
16-Sep-2010