The Turkish government has taken a great deal of criticism for holding talks with Hamas by its media, the Israeli government , and ironically, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) . Since Hamas?s stunning victory in recent parliamentary elections for the Palestinian administration, states have been faced with the dilemma of

The discovery of a new flavor of malware is significant in that it demonstrates the constantly shifting balance between attackers and defenders in cyberspace. This particular Trojan, rather than simply log keystrokes and steal account numbers and passwords, exploits known browser vulnerabilities. Once the exploit has been installed into a

Across the Middle East, it is heard that the propagation of ?al-Qaeda? cells and the planning of terrorist attacks are due to unpopular US policies, such as the invasion of Iraq , in the region. In Yemen , however, deep-rooted conflicts between tribal or minority groups and the government are

The convulsion of sectarian violence across Iraq that followed last week?s bombing of the Shia Askariya shrine underscores a number of concerning issues forecasted in these pages in recent months (see the February 15 WAR Report; the August 24 WAR Report and the 2006 Conflict Zones Forecast). These assessments emphasized

Providing a timely example of Donald Rumsfeld?s comments about al-Qaeda’s fast adaptation to fighting in an era of pervasive global media, an al-Qaeda propaganda organization, the Global Islamic Media Center, issued a statement on the Internet responding to his statement and seizing the opportunity to do recruit new members over