Hot Topics
AA: Cyber warfare: Sound the alarm or move ahead in stride? 10/21/09
AA: Iranian strike inside Pakistan a distant option: analysts 10/22/09
AA: Saudi-Iranian hostility hits boiling point 10/20/09
AE: UAE Attorney General calls for Arab coordination to combat crimes 10/20/09
AF: Brown Goes Wobbly on Afghanistan 10/21/09
AF: Italian troops denied access to intelligence reports, minister says 10/19/09
AF: US forces prepare for Afghan runoff vote 10/22/09
IR: Iran MPs demand action on Mousavi 10/20/09
KG: KYRGYZSTAN: BAKIYEV'S REFORM PUSH STRIVES TO CONTAIN CORRUPTION IN BISHKEK 10/20/09
LB: Lebanese Forces and Al-Qaeda are restructuring their cells. 10/19/09
PK: BNP and the armed forces: a colour-blind military is the best defence 10/20/09
YE: Armed Forces To End Saada War Soon 10/20/09
Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime
Instability
AA: Disrupting the Foreign Fighter Flow 10/20/09
AA: Taliban Build Multi-Million Dollar Insurgent Operation, Complicating US Efforts 10/19/09
AA: Terror at doorstep: PM tells forces to stay alert 10/20/09
AF: New battleground in N Afghanistan? 10/19/09
AF: Militants deepen their foothold in Afghanistan's north 10/22/09
AF: Three US soldiers, 25 Taliban dead in Afghanistan 10/17/09
LB: Israel may have planted spy gear in Lebanon: U.N. 10/18/09
SA: Saudi concern rises over Al Qaeda activity in Yemen 10/19/09
YE: Yemen could become first nation to run out of water 10/20/09
YE: Yemen insurgents say Saudi forces fired at border town10/19/09
Special Operations
AA: IDF, US army simulate Iran missile attack 10/22/09
AA: Live fire training dangerous but essential 10/21/09
EG: Coalition Partners Participate in Friendship Jump Over Egypt 10/20/09
LB: Lebanese security forces conduct series of anti-terrorism maneuvers 10/22/09
Security Forces
AA: Israeli police arrest convicted American pedophile 10/21/09
AF: Afghanistan very hard, but hope exists-Canada army 10/21/09
AF: Security forces kill 8 militants in S Afghanistan 10/18/09
IQ: ISF arrest suspected father, son terrorists 10/21/09
IR: Iran arrests suspects in attack on military chiefs 10/20/09
PK: CID arrests 3 more TTP men 10/20/09
PK: Pakistan forces ‘hit Taliban bases' 10/21/09
TJ: ‘Militants' hunted in Tajikistan 10/19/09
YE: Tight security after guns seizure in eastern Yemen 10/17/09
YE: Yemeni army kills 18 rebels 10/18/09
Foreign Affairs
AA: Ministers of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan and Russia sign protocol on … 10/19/09
AE: UAE seeks to widen economic ties with Japan 10/19/09
AE: UAE urges UN to implement “Goldstone Recommendations” Report 10/21/09
EG: Egypt opposition tries to rebound 10/21/09
KZ: Kazakhstan: The opposition forces organized demonstration in Almaty 10/20/09
LB: Lebanese president accuses Israel of spying 10/20/09
PK: Pakistan Pledges to Destroy Any Terrorist Camps on Iran Border 10/20/09
PS: Hamas denies approving Egypt's unity proposal 10/21/09
YE: EC supports Yemen in combating organized crime 10/19/09
Crime
AA: Cyber Crime Investigation Nets 100 Suspects in US, Egypt 10/20/09
AA: Afghan opium feeding Europe, Russia, Iran addicts 10/21/09
AA: British soldier attached to special forces faces war crimes probe 10/17/09
AF: Afghanistan drug trail spanning the world 10/22/09