Maoist co-operation threatens India and Nepal
THE ADVANCE of violent Maoist groups in India and neighbouring Nepal is the focus of this month's TSM, in particular the cross-border ideological and logistical...
07-Apr-2006 Drug eradication brings Afghanistan into focus
AFGHAN security is the focus of this month’s Terrorism and Security Monitor, as the UK military gears-up for full deployment to the country’s restive Helmand...
10-Mar-2006 *Jane's Exclusive Interview: Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, Speaker of Parliament, Transitional Federal Parliament of the Somali Republic
After 14 years without a functioning government, Somalia now has a parliament, a cabinet and a President. However, many Parliamentarians are concerned that neighbouring Ethiopia...
18-Oct-2005 Editorial - Security deteriorates in southern Thailand
A SEPARATIST campaign waged by Islamist militants in southern Thailand still awaits a truly coherent response from Bangkok. Meanwhile, the violence worsens as the militants...
17-Oct-2005 Is Iraq becoming a base for regional terrorism?
TWO incidents in the eastern Mediterranean region in August gave rise to concern that Iraq is emerging as a potential base of operations for radical...
12-Sep-2005 Shifting sands on the Middle East political stage
SHIFTING political sands in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories in recent months have touched the fortunes of two of the region's pre-eminent Islamist militant groups:...
09-Jun-2005 Security crackdown brings calm to Saudi Arabia
SAUDI Arabia has experienced a period of relative peace this year. There have been no major terrorist attacks since the attempted storming of the US...
16-May-2005 Have the Albanian insurgents gone for good?
THEY MAY have swapped their weapons and combat fatigues for sharp suits and a life in politics, but what is the likelihood that some of...
07-Apr-2005 War on terrorism proves divisive in Pakistan
PAKISTAN'S decision to align itself with the US in its war on terrorism has proven dangerously divisive in a country already plagued by a deep...
16-Mar-2005 Border security: an uphill battle?
THE infiltration of militants into Iraq via the Syria-Iraq border is one of several controversial issues TSM will address this month. Since the end of...
14-Feb-2005 The future of the war on terrorism
PRESIDENT George W Bush faces a number of difficult foreign policy issues in his second term, but he appears unlikely to change the overall direction...
17-Nov-2004 Al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda and WMD
The world’s second most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is notorious for his involvement in the kidnapping and beheading of foreign workers in Iraq. But it...
07-Oct-2004 Israeli zealots throw down the gauntlet
Political tension is mounting to levels unseen since the murderous right-wing backlash that followed the 1993 Oslo Accords and led to the November 1995 assassination...
07-Oct-2004 The next phase of the Russian-Chechen conflict
The Beslan atrocity highlights political and security deficiencies in the Kremlin- and reveals that the Chechen terrorists have the resources and motivation to continue their...
14-Sep-2004 USA courts Iraq's Dr Strangeloves
The main target group comprises 400-500 scientists. The fear is that they could be lured into clandestine weapons programmes that could threaten the USA and...
21-Jul-2004 Iraq's militias become a threat
THE BLOODSHED unleashed across Iraq in early April by the supporters of a young radical Shi'ite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, was the USA's worst nightmare come...
13-Apr-2004 Ansar al-Islam takes on the USA
Abderrazak Mahdjoub is the man every intelligence officer in Western Europe wants to talk to these days. The 30-year-old Algerian known as ‘the Sheikh’ is...
12-Feb-2004 Iraq?s looming winter of discontent
The USA is grappling with a worsening security crisis in Iraq, but its intelligence seems to be so woefully inadequate that it does not appear...
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