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Jihadists Threaten GeorgiaEarlier this month, a truck bomb targeting Georgian troops serving in Afghanistan’s Helmand province as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force left seven soldiers dead. Th…
Turkish Protests and the ‘Interest-Rate Lobby’: Bad News for Business?This past weekend, as anti-government protests that have gripped cities across Turkey for nearly two weeks continued, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan adopted a tone of heightened defiance in a ser…
After Afghanistan: Russia’s Response to New Regional ChallengesLeaders from the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation came together for a series of meetings in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan last week. The officials, representing Russia and the five …
Re-Evaluating India’s Maoist Insurgency RiskLast weekend, Maoist rebels in India’s Chhattisgarh state ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying leading figures from the state’s Congress party. The assault left twenty four people dead – incl…