By Ben McPherson, Guest Contributor to EGF Middle East Research
February 2013

Key points:

• Religious fighters take hold in Syria
• How it happened: Alawites, Syrian power and the Ba’th Party
• The rise of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
• Sectarianism taking hold
• Part of a global power game
• The road to nowhere.
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• February 20, 2013

By Nora Renger, EGF Middle East Researcher
February 2013

Key points:

• The “wrath of Islam” is hardly novel
• Nor is the wrath of Christiandom
• Questioning the critique of morality
• Yet Muslims have always rejected violence
• Although they will not tolerate injustice
• “Islamic politics” rising across the Muslim world
• Turmoil following revolutions a threat to stability
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• February 20, 2013

Adding a new dimension to their strategic ties, India and the UK today decided to start negotiations on a civil nuclear pact to facilitate entry of British companies into emerging atomic power sector here.

• February 19, 2013

Russia will continue its active role in the political and diplomatic settlement of conflicts in the CIS area.

• February 19, 2013

International observers say Armenia's presidential vote was an improvement on recent elections but was not genuinely competitive.

• February 19, 2013

India wants a share in gas fields in Turkmenistan from where the proposed $9-billion transnational gas pipeline will cross terrorist-infested regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver gas across the Punjab border.

• February 18, 2013

Armenians have been casting their ballots in the country's latest presidential election.

• February 18, 2013

Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day and sent it to Pyongyang as a special gift for then leader Kim Jong-il.

• February 18, 2013