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Middle East & Africa

Iran
MOHSEN ANSARI

Iran's spiritual leader, ayatollah Ali Kahenei, ordered the dismissal of Tehran police chief general Farhad Nazari on Aug. 26 for [...]

Subscribers only 09.09.1999

Iraq
SECURITY TIGHTENED IN SOUTH

An outbreak of unrest in southern Iraq has forced president Saddam Hussein to beef up the security and intelligence services [...]

Subscribers only 09.09.1999

Middle East
ISRAEL'S BATTLE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Although the head of Israel's armed forces, gen. Shaul Mofaz, denied any Israeli involvement in an attack that cost the [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

Middle East
INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

An investigation into an explosion in the basement of a two-floor building at Hebron on Aug. 16 has put the [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.1999

Yemen
HIGH-RISK ELECTION

The prospect of presidential elections in Yemen on Sept. 28-28 has deepened the split within the fundamentalist movement in recent [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1999

Middle East
WAHABI FUNDAMENTALISTS TAKE ON ARAFAT

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is engaged in a power struggle with fundamentalist movements that are gaining influence in the big [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1999

Palestine
MAHMUD ABU OMAR

Aged 37 and living in London, Mahmud Abu Omar leads the fundamentalist movement al Takfir (Excommunication). Born into a Palestinian [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.1999

Middle East
SECRET TALKS TO STAND DOWN SLA

Envoys from new Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak met secretly with gen. Antoine Lahad, head of the South Lebanese Army [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Israel
INTELLIGENCE BACK IN FAVOR

Unlike his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu, who waged an open and permanent war with Israel's intelligence agencies –Mossad, Shabak and Aman—new [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Egypt
MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

A leader of Egypt's Jihad, Mahmud Sayyid Jaballah, currently jailed in Canada, will find out by August 16 whether the [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Iraq
HASSAN AL NAKIB

Born in 1930 in Samarra north of Baghdad, Hassan al Nakib, a former Iraqi general of Sunni origin who lives [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Saudi Arabia, UAE
FLARE-UP BETWEEN RIYADH AND ABU DHABI

For the first time since it was set up in 1981, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) wound up a meeting [...]

Subscribers only 24.06.1999

Egypt
ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Without much hope of getting Washington to agree, the Egyptian authorities have just asked the United States to extradite Ali [...]

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

Iraq
SADDAM CHANGES HIS SECURITY TEAM

Probably concerned about new CIA plans to overthrow him, Saddam Hussein has just made major changes in his intelligence and [...]

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

Egypt
FUNDAMENTALISTS SEEK LEGAL STATUS

In recent weeks Egypt's fundamentalist movement has been weighing the pros and cons of becoming a legal political party under [...]

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

Egypt
ABDULSALAM MAHJUB

The governor of Alexandria, gen. Mohamed Abdulsalam Mahjub, is being increasingly cited in Cairo as Egypt's future vice-president. The appointment [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.1999

Iran, Saudi Arabia
CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHING NORMAL RELATIONS

During an official visit that he carried out to Iran [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.1999

Palestine
AGENCIES ENFORCE ELECTORAL TRUCE

Yasser Arafat's intelligence agencies have gradually succeeded in stifling the military arm of Hamas with help from Israel's Shin Bet [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.1999

Egypt
ADEL ASSAYED ABDUL KUDUS

Born in Malawi, Upper Egypt, in 1959, Adel Assayed Abdul Kudus, who joined Jihad in 1979, played only a secondary [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.1999

Middle East
IN-FIGHTING AMONG HEZBOLLAH BOSSES

Syria is currently working to curb the military aggressiveness of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon by undermining the position of its [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.1999

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Middle East & Africa

Iran
MOHSEN ANSARI

Iraq
SECURITY TIGHTENED IN SOUTH

Middle East
ISRAEL'S BATTLE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Middle East
INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

Yemen
HIGH-RISK ELECTION

Middle East
WAHABI FUNDAMENTALISTS TAKE ON ARAFAT

Palestine
MAHMUD ABU OMAR

Middle East
SECRET TALKS TO STAND DOWN SLA

Israel
INTELLIGENCE BACK IN FAVOR

Egypt
MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

Iraq
HASSAN AL NAKIB

Saudi Arabia, UAE
FLARE-UP BETWEEN RIYADH AND ABU DHABI

Egypt
ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Iraq
SADDAM CHANGES HIS SECURITY TEAM

Egypt
FUNDAMENTALISTS SEEK LEGAL STATUS

Egypt
ABDULSALAM MAHJUB

Iran, Saudi Arabia
CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHING NORMAL RELATIONS

Palestine
AGENCIES ENFORCE ELECTORAL TRUCE

Egypt
ADEL ASSAYED ABDUL KUDUS

Middle East
IN-FIGHTING AMONG HEZBOLLAH BOSSES

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Middle East & Africa

Iran MOHSEN ANSARI

Iraq SECURITY TIGHTENED IN SOUTH

Middle East ISRAEL'S BATTLE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Middle East INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

Yemen HIGH-RISK ELECTION

Middle East WAHABI FUNDAMENTALISTS TAKE ON ARAFAT

Palestine MAHMUD ABU OMAR

Middle East SECRET TALKS TO STAND DOWN SLA

Israel INTELLIGENCE BACK IN FAVOR

Egypt MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

Iraq HASSAN AL NAKIB

Saudi Arabia, UAE FLARE-UP BETWEEN RIYADH AND ABU DHABI

Egypt ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Iraq SADDAM CHANGES HIS SECURITY TEAM

Egypt FUNDAMENTALISTS SEEK LEGAL STATUS

Egypt ABDULSALAM MAHJUB

Iran, Saudi Arabia CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHING NORMAL RELATIONS

Palestine AGENCIES ENFORCE ELECTORAL TRUCE

Egypt ADEL ASSAYED ABDUL KUDUS

Middle East IN-FIGHTING AMONG HEZBOLLAH BOSSES

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Iran
MOHSEN ANSARI

Iraq
SECURITY TIGHTENED IN SOUTH

Middle East
ISRAEL'S BATTLE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Middle East
INTERNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST HAMAS

Yemen
HIGH-RISK ELECTION

Middle East
WAHABI FUNDAMENTALISTS TAKE ON ARAFAT

Palestine
MAHMUD ABU OMAR

Middle East
SECRET TALKS TO STAND DOWN SLA

Israel
INTELLIGENCE BACK IN FAVOR

Egypt
MAHMUD SAYYID JABALLAH

Iraq
HASSAN AL NAKIB

Saudi Arabia, UAE
FLARE-UP BETWEEN RIYADH AND ABU DHABI

Egypt
ALI ABDUL SAUD MUSTAFA

Iraq
SADDAM CHANGES HIS SECURITY TEAM

Egypt
FUNDAMENTALISTS SEEK LEGAL STATUS

Egypt
ABDULSALAM MAHJUB

Iran, Saudi Arabia
CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHING NORMAL RELATIONS

Palestine
AGENCIES ENFORCE ELECTORAL TRUCE

Egypt
ADEL ASSAYED ABDUL KUDUS

Middle East
IN-FIGHTING AMONG HEZBOLLAH BOSSES