Africa
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A Jihadist in the Sand: The Rise of Abdelmalek Droukdel, al-Qaeda’s Amir in Algeria
March 1, 2010 01:20 PM
Abdelmalek Droukdel (a.k.a. Abu Musab al-Wadoud), the current amir of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), should be considered the real power behind the shift in focus of the Algerian jihad. Drouk...
The Caucasus
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US House Vote Adds New Twist to Turkey-Armenia Diplomacy
March 10, 2010 03:37 PM
A key committee in the United States House of Representatives has once again approved a draft resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genoc...
Central Asia
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Holbrooke’s Visit Highlights US-Uzbek Regional Dilemmas and Opportunities
March 8, 2010 03:49 PM
Richard Holbrooke, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, visited Uzbekistan on February 19 as part of a series of meetings across the Central Asian capitals to boost regional support...
China and the Asia-Pacific
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Will Xinjiang’s Turkistani Islamic Party Survive the Drone Missile Death of its Leader?
March 11, 2010 02:56 PMThough it appears to have occurred on February 15, the death of the leader of al-Hizb al-Islami al-Turkistani (Turkistani Islamic Party - TIP) was reported only in recent days (Geo TV, March 1; Dawn [...
Europe
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Salient Issues in Ukraine-Russia Relations and Yanukovych’s Moscow Visit
March 10, 2010 03:34 PM
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s visit to Moscow on March 5 (see “Yanukovych in Moscow: More Than Balancing the Brussels Visit,” EDM, March 10) focused almost entirely on bilateral relations, p...
Latin America
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Sergei Lavrov Travels to Latin America
March 10, 2010 03:32 PM
During his presidential tour of Latin America in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia’s Latin American policy was only beginning. Although the pace of these relations cooled in 2009, due to the glob...
Middle East
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Kurdish Counterterrorism Group Works to Prevent Terrorism in Kurdistan and Iraq
March 11, 2010 02:43 PMWith an intelligence and military wing of over 1,000 people, the Sulaymaniyah-based Counter Terrorism Group (CTG) collects intelligence and carries out operations to prevent terrorists in Iraq from de...
Russia
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Salient Issues in Ukraine-Russia Relations and Yanukovych’s Moscow Visit
March 10, 2010 03:34 PM
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s visit to Moscow on March 5 (see “Yanukovych in Moscow: More Than Balancing the Brussels Visit,” EDM, March 10) focused almost entirely on bilateral relations, p...
South Asia
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Kashmir’s Militants May Derail India-Pakistan Negotiations
March 11, 2010 02:55 PMIslamist terrorism in South Asia, the epicenter of global terrorism, thrives on lasting India-Pakistan enmity. Pakistan would have no interest in using jihad as an instrument of its defense policy in ...
Turkey
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US House Vote Adds New Twist to Turkey-Armenia Diplomacy
March 10, 2010 03:37 PM
A key committee in the United States House of Representatives has once again approved a draft resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genoc...
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