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Issue 853 - 16 May 2009

Yemen’s South gets organised as oil slump compounds crisis facing Saleh

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Issue 853 - 16 May 2009

Moving from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ security, Iraq pins hopes on fragile economic renaissance

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Issue 852 - 02 May 2009

Southern Yemen’s discontent comes to the boil with tribal leader’s defiance

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Issue 852 - 02 May 2009

Iraqi insurgents: the Baath’s surviving foreign missions

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Issue 852 - 02 May 2009

Power struggles undermine Maliki’s efforts to reach Iraq’s Sunni exiles

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Issue 851 - 18 April 2009

Syria upstream update – improved terms needed to attract serious investment

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Issue 851 - 18 April 2009

Syrian gas exploration and production

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Issue 851 - 18 April 2009

Questions about AQAP’s return as Saudi arrests point to ambitious jihadist plans

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Issue 850 - 27 March 2009

Oman’s prudent management of the windfall from high oil prices has paid off, say analysts

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Issue 850 - 27 March 2009

Mousavi’s emergence reorders the reformist pack

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Issue 850 - 27 March 2009

Attack on Korean tourists signals new escalation in Yemeni jihadist threat

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Issue 848 - 27 February 2009

US mulls the lessons of 30 years of containing Iran as it readies sticks and carrots

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In depth archive

Yemen’s South gets organised as oil slump compounds crisis facing Saleh

Moving from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ security, Iraq pins hopes on fragile economic renaissance

Southern Yemen’s discontent comes to the boil with tribal leader’s defiance

Iraqi insurgents: the Baath’s surviving foreign missions

Power struggles undermine Maliki’s efforts to reach Iraq’s Sunni exiles

Syria upstream update – improved terms needed to attract serious investment

Syrian gas exploration and production

Questions about AQAP’s return as Saudi arrests point to ambitious jihadist plans

Oman’s prudent management of the windfall from high oil prices has paid off, say analysts

Mousavi’s emergence reorders the reformist pack

Attack on Korean tourists signals new escalation in Yemeni jihadist threat

US mulls the lessons of 30 years of containing Iran as it readies sticks and carrots

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