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Iran missile launch sends message to Obama
The Sajil-2 medium-range surface-to-surface missile was launched at the space centre in Semnan, on the northern edge of the Dasht-e Kavir (Great Salt Desert) ...
28-May-2009
Former rebels key to Cote d'Ivoire's election
In Côte d'Ivoire, recent election dates have come and gone without any credible possibility of free and fair polls being held. Nevertheless, the work of...
27-May-2009
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO secretary-general
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was officially named as the next secretary-general of NATO on 4 April. Despite support from a large number ...
26-May-2009
Italian mafia profits from economic downturn
The deteriorating economic environment has increased business opportunities for the Italian mafia, as Pietro Grasso, Italy's national anti-mafia prosecutor, warned in a report to ...
26-May-2009
NATO considers Iran supply route
As NATO grapples to defeat an increasingly serious Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, one of the problems it encounters has been its lack of convenient, ...
19-May-2009
Militant arrests spark security push in Bahrain
In early May, Bahrain's monarch, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifah, proposed a new set of tougher laws that are intended to clamp down on ...
18-May-2009
Russian chill could push Iran into China's arms
Iran has renewed pressure on Moscow for permission to purchase Russia's S-300 air defence system by threatening to buy a comparable weapon from China. ...
15-May-2009
Torture tape threatens US-UAE nuclear deal
The torture issue that has preoccupied the US intelligence community in recent months has re-emerged and could disrupt a proposed civil nuclear cooperation agreement ...
13-May-2009
French-Spanish co-operation quells terrorist threat
Basque nationalism seems to be in decline following the results of Spain's regional elections on 1 March, which gave a majority to non-nationalist parties. ...
12-May-2009
Russia intensifies the great pipeline game
The saga of the Nabucco pipeline may be coming to a close. The pipeline was designed and lobbied for by the European parliament and ...
12-May-2009
Iran's wild eastern frontiers
Iranian authorities are increasingly turning their attention to ways to improve the security situation along the country's unruly 1,845 km long border with Afghanistan ...
05-May-2009
Russia and Venezuela link arms
On 13 March, Major-General Anatoly Zikharev, commander of Russia's strategic aviation, announced that Venezuela had offered Russia a base at La Orchila Island for...
05-May-2009
Cyber spies assault US power grid
Reports of cyber penetration of the the United States' power grid indicate that one or more foreign governments may have engaged in systematic mapping ...
05-May-2009
Chechen president enjoys mixed relations with Moscow
On 16 April, Russia ended its decade-long counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, thereby implicitly claiming victory over the Northern Caucasus republic's independence movement. The decision, ...
28-Apr-2009
North Korea deaf to Russian overtures
Almost unnoticed, the Korean peninsula has served as perhaps the most important geographic region enjoying high levels of Russian-US co-operation during the past two ...
27-Apr-2009
Treaty to toughen up on maritime terrorism
A multinational counter-terrorism treaty poised to come into force in 2009 will introduce new procedures on maritime terrorism. For the first time in a ...
23-Apr-2009
Russia remains wary of Beijing's Central Asia vision
Russian special services still exercise intelligence primacy in many of the former Soviet republics, particularly in Central Asia. Moscow has maintained its dominant position ...
20-Apr-2009
Paraguay's insurgent-criminal confusion
An attack by an alleged insurgent group in Paraguay has sparked a major security response from the government, as well as a national debate ...
17-Apr-2009
Obama seeks to dismantle nuclear wall
US President Barack Obama is seeking to 'reset' relations with Russia by resurrecting bilateral strategic arms control with Moscow. The George W Bush administration ...
09-Apr-2009
Georgia's evermore spiteful politics
With just a few days to go before the opposition's planned 9 April protests, which organisers say are meant to peacefully force President Mikheil ...
06-Apr-2009
Russian subversion in Ukraine's strategic regions
The covert battle between Moscow and Kiev over Ukraine's strategic Crimean peninsula and Transcarpathian region is far from over, according to Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, head ...
31-Mar-2009
US and Mexico border agencies focus on tunnel vision
On 24 March, US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and other senior US officials announced several initiatives to strengthen security along the United ...
27-Mar-2009
Colombia's criminal exodus
Drug baron Miguel Ángel Mejía joined the ranks of Colombian criminals taking a one-way trip to the United States when he stepped aboard a ...
27-Mar-2009
US ponders Iranian S-300s
One factor driving the US administration of President Barack Obama to seek to prevent Russia from selling S-300 surface-to-air-missile systems to Iran is Israel's ...
25-Mar-2009
Will Obama curb intelligence outsourcing?
Just as the demands of the Iraq War led the United States military to rely increasingly on private contractors to provide essential support functions, ...
23-Mar-2009
Yemen elections on hold
On 24 February, after months of increasingly bitter recriminations, the two major Yemeni political groupings agreed a two-year postponement of the parliamentary elections that ...
20-Mar-2009
Iran and the SCO
In February, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said he expected Tehran to realise its long-sought ambition to become a full member of the Shanghai ...
18-Mar-2009
Bosnia again under strain
In January 2009, 13 years after the Dayton peace agreement brought to an end the three-year war that split up the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia ...
13-Mar-2009
Cuba: Raúlito's way
On 2 March, Cuban President Raúl Castro carried out the biggest cabinet reshuffle on the Caribbean island since 1980: eleven ministerial positions changed hands ...
13-Mar-2009
UK loan sharks feed off credit crunch
The current global credit crisis has created a conducive environment for an increase in loan shark operations. As banks become less willing to extend ...
11-Mar-2009
Obama braces for cyber storm
An urgent priority for the new United States administration of President Barack Obama is to reinforce US defences against cyber attacks. As soon as ...
10-Mar-2009
Syrbar: Kazakhstan's new Foreign Intelligence Service
Kazakhstan has never before had a separate foreign intelligence agency, instead simply maintaining Barlau, a small department for this purpose within the larger Committee ...
09-Mar-2009
Iran pushes buttons with Bushehr test
On 25 February, Iran performed pre-commissioning tests of its long-delayed nuclear power reactor at Bushehr, involving dummy fuel rods and the reactor's computer systems, ...
03-Mar-2009
Mali peace accord could counter AQIM's reach
On 17 February, 578 Tuareg rebels laid down their arms in Kidal, northern of Mali. The ceremony was part of the Algiers Accord agreement, ...
02-Mar-2009
Kyrgyzstan's powerful criminal gangs
Kyrgyzstan is becoming an increasingly important hub for trafficking drugs, people and contraband. In December 2007, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev formed a new government following ...
26-Feb-2009
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