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The Specter of Shahids Continues to Haunt Russia
The Russian security services is now asserting that the massive terrorist attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on January 24, in which 37 people were killed and 120 more injured, will not be the last action carried out by a shahid (martyr) – meaning a suicide... MORE
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New Tensions in Kirkuk as Kurdish Peshmerga Surround City
The demonstrations occurring in several countries in the Middle East are now also taking place in Iraq. The violence and public protests that erupted in Kirkuk province and elsewhere in Iraq on February 25 have the dangerous potential to escalate into a civil war between... MORE
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The Khurasan Mujahideen Seek to Eliminate Espionage in Waziristan
Although Pakistani Taliban militants have killed hundreds of people accused of spying for the United States or Pakistan’s intelligence agencies over the past few years in the lawless tribal areas of North and South Waziristan, the incidents of such execution are on rise since the... MORE
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Harsh Measures only Strengthen the Insurgency in Dagestan
On March 23, the village of Gubden in Dagestan was completely blockaded by Russian military, police and Federal Security Service (FSB) agents. After that, the servicemen began to search the homes of local residents. Sources in Gubden told the author of this piece that armed... MORE
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Taking Charge of Libya’s Rebels: An In-Depth Portrait of Colonel Khalifa Haftar
Background Khalifa Haftar, a dissident Libyan Army colonel and long time foe of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, reappeared on March 14 in Benghazi, the opposition’s supposedly temporary de facto administrative center, to lead Libya’s chaotic rebellion (al-Jazeera, March 14). For many years Haftar has been the... MORE
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Three Men from Basrah: A Look at Key Shia Militants Guiding the Path of Iraq’s Violent Politics
For years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the city of Basrah saw the growing influence of various Shia militias. In addition to the better known and powerful Mahdi Army (Jaish al-Mahdi—JaM) of Moqtada al-Sadr and its rival Badr Corps, the military arm of... MORE
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Restoring the Caliphate in Yemen: A Look at Shaykh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani
After decades of loyalty to Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s best known and most controversial Islamic scholar has called for the regime’s downfall and the creation of an Islamic Caliphate in the southern Arabian Peninsula. The defection of the influential Shaykh Abd al-Majid... MORE
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A Biographical Sketch of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Murad Ebrahim
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is the Philippines’ largest Islamic secessionist and insurgent movement and is led by a man named al-Haj Murad Ebrahim. For the last eight years Ebrahim has been at the forefront of negotiating with the Philippine government for greater autonomy for... MORE
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Kremlin Resorts to Using Russian Air Force to Attack Rebels in Ingushetia’s Mountains
On March 28, the Russian security forces launched a large-scale assault on militants in Ingushetia. The Russian air force was used to bomb rebels in the mountainous Upper Alkun area of the republic. Ground operations were carried out in Ingushetia’s largest town, Nazran, and other... MORE
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Moscow’s Envoy to North Caucasus Indecisive, Reverts to Outdated Institutions
On March 24, Moscow’s envoy to the North Caucasus, Aleksandr Khloponin, presided over a meeting of the so-called North Caucasian Public Chamber in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia. The gathering’s stated purpose was to find ways to boost an “all-Russian identity,” something that North Caucasians presumably lack,... MORE