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In the second of two articles on Russia’s Muslim strategy, Walter Laqueur observes that hostility to the United States and its allies inclines Russia’s elites towards an anti-Western alliance...These are, above all, demographic: while Russia’s population...
Tags: Russian, Muslim Moscow, Muslim Caucasus Northern Caucasus, Muslim world, Muslims, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Islamica, Radical Islam, Central Asia, Middle East Strategy, Russia, Moscow, Aleksandr Dugin, Beslan school hostage crisis, Chechnya, Moscow theater hostage crisis, Islam in Russia, Ingushetia, Vladimir Putin
The most important patterns in international terrorism, with particular reference to threats to the U.S. homeland, in the eight years since the 9/11 attacks can be summarized in two trends pointing in different directions. The first is that the group...
Tags: border fertilisation, Afghanistan, Kabul, September 11 attacks, Counter-terrorism, Paul R. Pillar, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War, Politics, Islamic terrorism, Iraq ¬タモ United States relations, Al-Qaeda, War Conflict, Waziristan, War in North-West Pakistan, Waziristan Accord, Taliban, Terrorism in Pakistan, War on Terrorism, Swat Pakistan, Pakistan, Inter-Services Intelligence, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Islamism
Central Asia’s most feared Islamic group is back in the news, with reports that it has regrouped in northern Afghanistan close to the border with Tajikistan. At first sight, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, IMU, looks positioned to mount a repeat of...
Tags: IMU, Central Asian, Tashpulat Yoldashev, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Tohir Yoldash, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Asia Plus, Uzbek Guerrilla Force, Dushanbe, Insurgency, Terrorism in Central Asia, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Islam Karimov, Islam in Uzbekistan, Terrorism in Uzbekistan, Islamism, War Conflict
The Pakistani military may have scored impressive victories in its offensive against terror groups hiding in South Waziristan, but it is the insurgents who have been grabbing the headlines with their relentless, strike-at-will wave of violence, sparing...
Tags: Pakistan, Northern Taliban, tribal area, Islamabad, United States Military Academy, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Inter-Services Intelligence, Military of Pakistan, War in North-West Pakistan, timeline of the War in Waziristan, War on Terrorism, Waziristan, War Conflict, Politics, International Security Assistance Force, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Islamic terrorism, Islamism
Clinton made the comments to a group of newspaper editors in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday, a day before the final leg of her trip to the country. She said al-Qaeda had enjoyed a "safe haven" in Pakistan since 2002 and suggested that Pakistani...
Tags: Pakistani Taliban, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, U.S, al qaeda, South Waziristan, pakistanis anger, White House press
US intelligence agencies believe the newly named leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, might have been killed in a firefight with a rival faction weeks ago, officials said on Friday. Militants tapped Hakimullah to replace the group's...
Tags: South Waziristan, Pakistani, Tehrik-i-Taliban, U.S, Hakimullah Mehsud, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldashev
This is file image from Friday, April 3, 2009, from mobile phone footage released by Dunya TV Channel, shows a woman in a body-covering burqa face down on the ground with two men holding her arms and feet and a third man whipping her backside. It could...
Islamist funders' held in Europe Police in France, the Netherlands and Germany have arrested 10 people suspected of providing funding to Islamic extremists in Uzbekistan. Eight arrests took place in France, one in the Netherlands and one in Germany. In...
Tags: France, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Germany, Netherlands, Mulhouse, rhone region, French, Rhone, central rhone, Europe Police