InBrief Archives
- January 2007 (7 Entries)
- Iranian Nuclear Cycle: Demands And Crises Coincide
- Hizballah Pulls Back As Support Deteriorates
- Spoiler of Israel-Palestinian Rapprochement is Iran
- Iraq-Iran Relations Challenging US Push
- US Strikes al-Qaeda In Somalia
- MEND Threatening Attacks on Nigerian Oil Facilities
- al-Qaeda and the ICU’s Somali Retreat
- December 2006 (11 Entries)
- The Glasnost Ghost: Russia's Soviet Vision
- Iran's Capitalism: Free Enterprise, Profit and Kassams
- Reversal of Fortunes in Somalia: Mogadishu Siege
- Israel Struggles With Attacks and Peace Overtures
- Budding Alliance: Iran-Russia Cooperation Deepens
- Iraqi Leaders Respond to Baker-Hamilton Report
- Iran Fueling Hamas And Hizballah Toward Conflict
- Bush Rejects ISG Call For Iran Talks
- Hizballah Protests As Missiles Trucked In
- Gaza Cease-Fire Crumbling
- Hizballah Mobilizes Masses Into Beirut
- November 2006 (21 Entries)
- Russian-Built Reactor Erased From Iran Sanctions
- Israeli Restraint Holds Gaza Ceasefire
- Russian Missiles For Iranian Nuke Plants
- Reprisal: Sadr City Ripped by Sunni Blasts
- Syrian Coup in Lebanon Nears Success
- Lebanese Cabinet Member Assassinated
- Hamas Attack Hits Near UN Commissioner
- China Prods India After Pak Free Trade Deal
- Broken Resolve Boosts Ahmadinejad's Confidence
- Dozens Kidnapped From Baghdad University
- New PA Prime Minister After US Veto At UN
- Hizballah Doubles Pre-War Missile Count in Lebanon
- Hariri's Shadow: Hizballah Quits Government
- Israel Braces For Beit Hanun Reprisals
- Bomber Kills Dozens of Pakistani Troops
- Nigeria: Flying Under The Radar
- IDF Operation Autumn Clouds In Gaza To Continue
- War Imminent in Somalia
- Hamas Summons Human Shields, 2 Women Killed
- Iran Announces Parallel Exercise in Persian Gulf
- Israel Will Not Expand Gaza Operations
- October 2006 (35 Entries)
- Pakistan Spinning Bajur Madrassa Strike
- Hizballah Rearming and Rebuilding
- Iranian Duplicity Continues
- Argentina Seeks Arrest of Rafsanjani for 1994 Bombing
- Russia Rejects Iran Sanctions Draft Proposal
- Iran Decries US Gulf Proliferation Exercises
- Iran Advances as West Argues Over Bushehr
- Hamas And Fatah Nearing Armed Showdown
- Russia Will Oppose Any 'Punishing' Iran Sanctions
- Rice: No Sign of Kim Jong-Il's 'Regret'
- Ahmadinejad Delivers Jihad Ultimatum To Europe
- North Korea Backing Away From The Brink
- South Korea: More NK Nuke Tests 'Certain'
- Israel Steps Up Gaza Operations
- Coming Iran Sanctions Weakened
- North Korea Warned On Proliferation Amid Doubts
- US: Possible Second Nuclear Test Afoot
- No Enforcement In Approved North Korea Sanctions
- PSI Proliferation Inspections Struck From UN Sanctions
- Russia, China Stymie North Korea Sanctions Vote
- Islamic Courts Union Stirs Kenya
- Hamas Fires Rockets After IDF Raids in Gaza
- North Korea Warns: Bigger Tests, Missile Launch
- North Korea Sidelines Iranian Nuclear Crisis
- North Korea Nuke Test Stirs Region
- Iran Answers: Enrichment Halt 'Completely Unacceptable'
- Iranian Allies On The Ground In Lebanon
- NATO: Pakistani Intelligence Aiding Taliban, al-Qaeda
- Sadrist Denounces National Unity Government
- US Says Time For Iran Sanctions
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Palestinian Chaos: Unity Hopes Vanish
- Iranian Counter-Proposal Conflict of Interest
- 40 Abducted in Two Baghdad Terrorist Operations
- Fatah v. Hamas: Demonstrations Turn Bloody
- September 2006 (35 Entries)
- Belgium Says Terror Monitoring System Illegal
- Baghdad Offensive Expands to Seven Areas
- Taliban-al-Qaeda Alliance Defies Truce
- Iran Declares Security Council Ineffective
- Clouds Forming For 'Autumn Rains' In Gaza
- Iranian Paradox: Negotiation Without Compromise
- Iraqis Reach Temporary Compromise on Federalism
- Gaza Tunnels And Hamas’ Determination
- Russia Supports Iranian Program As US Flounders
- Hizballah: Public Celebration, Private Concern
- Hamas Sends Unity Gov't 'Back to Zero'
- Ahmadinejad Proclaims ‘No Need’ For Nukes
- Anbar Sunnis Turn on al-Qaeda
- IDF Not Ready For Weekend Pullout
- EU, IAEA: Reset Iran’s Nuclear Stopwatch
- Federalism Delayed Amid Sunni, Sadrist Opposition
- Somalia's First Suicide Bomb Misses President
- NAM Declaration Echoes Iranian Positions
- Abbas Calls Off Talks As Hamas Balks
- ISF Steps Up in Sunni Arab North
- Pakistan Returns 2,500 Terrorists To Jihad
- Hamas-Fatah Unity Gov't Deal Reached
- US Embassy Strike Follows al-Qaeda Threat
- Baghdad Ops Expand to Adhamiya, Mansour
- Iran Offers 2-Month Nuke Freeze – Or Not
- Iraq and al-Qaeda Untied
- Maliki Becomes Commander-in-Chief
- Pakistan's New 'Hands-Off' Agreement With al-Qaeda
- Islamic Courts Union Consolidates Hold in Somalia
- Coming To America
- Pakistan Cedes North Waziristan to Taliban
- Gaza: Trouble Brewing with Hizballah Support
- Less Than Zero
- Sistani to Maliki: Security Vacuum Intolerable
- Khatami Lands In America After Deadline Ignored
- August 2006 (29 Entries)
- Diwaniya: ISF Gives Mahdi Army Bloody Nose
- The Non-Deadline: Redrawing Lines In The Sand
- Baghdad Offensive Gains Ground
- Hizballah in Damage Control Mode in Lebanon
- New British Commander Updates on Iraqi South
- FNC Journalists Centanni and Wiig Released in Gaza
- Iran’s Heavy Water Production Plant Opens
- Court Rules Against Warrantless Wiretaps
- Iraqi Forces Clash with Shi'a Militia in Karbala
- Iran Defense: New Doctrine, Old Doctrine
- Exploitation Week: The August 22 Iranian Kickoff
- Second Battle of Baghdad Underway
- Synchronicity?
- Iran Defiantly Shares Hizballah Victory
- Two US-Iraqi Raids Against the Sadriya
- Israel Creates Vacuum for Hizballah
- Iraq Begins Crackdown on Kurdistan Workers' Party
- Operation Waffle Iron: Ceasefires and Rolling Tanks
- Maliki Declares Federal Control in Basra
- UK Foils 'Operation Bojinka II' Multiple Airliner Plot
- Shifting Gears: Israel Prepares for Push
- Operations in Ramadi & Baghdad Whittle Strongholds
- UN Resolution Rejected as Battle Rages
- Abizaid: Militias 'Curse of the Region'
- Iranian Banter: Suicidal ‘Oil Weapon’ Threat Renewed
- Sadr's Ties with Sunni Militants Go Sour
- Katyusha Rain: Civilians Bloodied as Nasrallah Threatens
- Deep Strike: IDF Air Assault Commando Raid on Baalbek
- Iraq SCIRI Leader Calls for Local 'Self-Defense'
- July 2006 (49 Entries)
- Iraq Security Forces Maintain Operations Against al-Qaeda, 'Death Squads'
- Qana, Katyushas and Carnage
- IDF Leaves Bint Jbail as UN Plan Materializes
- Hizballah Launches Fajr-5 Rockets Deeper Into Israel
- Turkish Troops Enter Iraq and Fire Rockets
- Beyond Haifa: Hizballah Vows 'New Stage'
- Sadr Faction Threatens to Turn on Maliki Government
- Battle for Bint Jbail as World Convulses
- IDF Pushes Deeper Into Hizballah Ground
- Iraqi Government Criticizes Israel Over Lebanon
- 'Undeclared Ceasefire' in Baghdad Interrupted
- IDF Takes Northern Ground Amid Gaza Ceasefire Talk
- 'Victim' Sadrists and Fadhila Leave Parliament
- Ground Push Imminent as Hizballah Rockets Fly
- Moving Forward Together in Ramadi, But Slowly
- Iraqi Shia Clerics Make Strongest Stand Yet Against Shia Militias
- Security Council Stalemate as Iran Forges Ahead
- Target: Nasrallah
- Global Reaction to Lebanon Crisis Shaped by Iran
- Iranian Missiles Destroyed Amid Talks of Cease-Fire
- Haifa Missile Attacks Net Deeper Israeli Strikes
- Kurdish Troops May Help Secure Baghdad
- Hizballah Fired Iranian Cruise Missiles at Ships
- Hizballah Declares 'Open War' After HQ Strike
- Israel Displays Clarity and Resolve In Conflict
- Aggressing the Aggressors: Israeli Self-Defense
- Prosecution of Jordanian Parliamentarians Who Praised Zarqawi Proceeds
- The Powerless Palestinian Authority
- US Holds Iran, Syria to Account for Hizballah
- Northern Lights: Hizballah Attack Opens Israeli Front
- Death Toll Climbs After Mumbai Train Bombings
- Maliki Speaks Before Kurdish Regional Assembly
- Night Moves: Israel & Hamas Inching Towards Deal?
- Sadr Plans Million Militant March in Response to US-Iraqi Operation
- Lead IAEA Iran Inspector Fired at Iranian Request
- US-Iraqi Forces Confront Mahdi Army in Baghdad
- Israeli Minister Suggests Prisoner Swap with Hamas
- Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim: The Interview
- Foreign Plot to Bomb Holland Tunnel Thwarted - Updated
- IDF Rolls Over Northern Gaza Rocket Launch Points
- Jordan-Muslim Brotherhood Conflict Heats Up After Zarqawi Homage
- Kidnapped Minister Freed, Baghdad Security Plan Flaws Eyed
- North Korean Long-Range Missile Fails In Flight
- ‘Operation Summer Rains’ and Shalit Part of ‘Long War’
- G-8 Deadline Rebuffed as Iran's Enrichment Continues
- Hamas Deadline Declared and Lapsed for Shalit
- Saturday's Market Bombing Kills Dozens, Brings Reprisals
- IDF Targets Hamas, Elected or Unelected
- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Court Invalidates Military Tribunals
- June 2006 (23 Entries)
- Sunni Factions React to Maliki Amnesty Initiative
- Anatomy of An Attack: The Palestinian Tunnel Raid
- Operation Summer Rain: IDF Enters Gaza
- Israel Prepares Gaza for Incursion
- IDF Coiled on Gaza Border After Kidnapping
- Iraqi PM Maliki Offers Amnesty Proposal for Sunni Insurgents
- Iran's Terrorism Ignored In Nuclear Bartering
- Denials in the Horn of Africa
- Zarqawi Document Reveals Ba'athist - al-Qaeda 'Strategic Relationship'
- Iran’s New Foreign Policy Approach
- No Pause as Israel, Fatah & Hamas Triangulate
- IDF Investigation: Land Mine Killed Family on Gaza Beach
- IAEA Suspects Secret Iranian Enrichment Program
- Referendum Is On, Fatah-Hamas Unity Is Off
- Persistence Pays Off For Iran
- The Palestinian Buildup For War
- al-Zarqawi Meets Fate: Killed in Airstrike
- Israel Blames Hamas for Gaza Rocket Attacks
- Iran Sees 'Positive Signs' as Military Option is Ceded
- Hamas and Fatah Inch Closer to Civil War
- Canada Raid Breaks Cell: 3 Tons of Explosives Found
- Londonistan: UK Raids Weapons Factory, Seek Chemical Suicide Vest
- Hamas Isolated Against Israel Recognition
- May 2006 (24 Entries)
- Israel Steps Up Counter-Rocket Tactics
- Iran Announces Fusion Work as EU Presses Unwanted Deal
- Hamas Blinks: 3,000-Man Militia Withdrawn
- Jordan's Threat: Iran, Hamas & al-Qaeda
- Conflict Deepens Despite Palestinian Talks
- Iran 'Reaches Out' With Shahab-3 Missile Launch
- Hamas-Fatah Tension Builds with New Fighting
- Palestinian Authority Infighting Escalates
- Angry Over 'Chocolates', Iran Laughs to the Bank
- Iran and Turkey Squeeze Iraq’s Kurds
- EU to Offer Iran Nuclear Reactor
- ElBaradei Downplays Uranium Find in Iran
- Iranian Equipment has Enriched Uranium 'Approaching Weapons-Grade'
- Iran Asked Pak Army for Nuclear Bomb in 1990
- Hamas Splintering Over Israel Recognition?
- Ahmadinejad: Tyrannical Israel 'Will be Destroyed'
- Indonesia Offers to Mediate Iran Negotiations
- Iran & al-Qaeda Fan Palestinian Flames
- Iran, Hizballah, Iraqi Shi'ite Militias and SA-18's
- IDF Relentless as Hamas, Fatah in Bloody Feud
- Iran Again Threatens NPT Withdrawal
- Pressure on Iran Mounts from Multiple Fronts
- US, EU Confident on Iran Sanctions
- Egypt: Which Side in the Clash of Civilizations?
- April 2006 (13 Entries)
- Ahmadinejad: ‘We Don’t Give a Damn’ About UN Resolutions
- The Iran Plan: Lather, Rinse, Repeat
- Shanghaied in Shanghai
- Tehran Qods Conference Nets Funding for Hamas
- Ahmadinejad Predicts End of Israel: "Soon"
- Iran Meets Partners: Hizballah, China and Russia
- ElBaradei Meeting Nets No Progress...For the West
- Iran, 'The Club' and the Saudi Shift
- Nuke-Modified Nosecones and Secret Facilities Hang Over Iran
- Iran's Public Defense Industry Trade Show Maneuvers
- Iran's Stealth Advances: The Iranian 'Flying Boat' Marks Latest
- The Two Faces of Hamas
- Iran's Amazing New Weapons Developments
- March 2006 (24 Entries)
- Red on Red in Gaza Bombing & Aftermath
- West Bank Bombing Opens Post-Elections Conflict Phase
- Iran Rejects UN Statement with Defiance
- Permanent Five Agree on Iran: No Consequences, Please
- Hamas All Smiles and Ready for Talks and Cash
- Hamas Minister Vows to Protect Terrorists: No Arrests
- Optimism Lost: Security Council Deadlocked on Iran
- Ahmadinejad Demands West’s Apology
- Security Council Slow but Progressing on Iran
- Released Iraqi Mukhabarat Notes Translated
- Operation Swarmer and Sudden Iran-US Talks on Iraq: Connection?
- US Willing to Talk with Iran on Iraq
- Iran Seeks Direct Talks with US on Iraq in Quest for More Time
- The Iranian Strategy: No News is Good News
- Hezbollah, al-Aqsa and Islamic Jihad Coordinating Attacks
- Russia and China Refuse Strong Statement on Iran
- Secret No More: Iran’s Underground Command Complex in Tehran
- US Demands Weapons Return From Bolivia
- Russia Opposes Consequences for Iran
- Defiant Iran Says ‘Let the Ball Roll’, Threatens 'Harm and Pain'
- US Gathering Post-Security Council Coalition on Iran
- Russia Rejects Iranian Nuclear 'Compromise'
- The IAEA's Iran Mess
- Pakistan Steps Up Ops
- February 2006 (30 Entries)
- al-Qaeda & Abqaiq: The Success of Failure
- 'Green Salt Project': Iran Admits Another Nuclear Deception
- Marines Commission Intelligence Probe on Iran
- Iraqi Mosque Reprisals: Teetering On the Brink
- Arab League Will Not Fund Hamas' Palestinian Authority
- Iran Portrays Concluded Russian Talks as 'Constructive'
- Iran Talks with Russia Stall Predictably
- Israel Imposes Restrictions on Hamas-led PA
- No Surprises In Britain
- Iran Blinks: Ready to 'Consider' Ratifying NPT and Additional Protocol
- European Firms Supplying Iranian Nuclear Program
- Iran's 'Slower, Please' Russian Talks Renewal
- Kenya Bust Highlights al-Qaeda Threat
- Londonistan Lives
- Iran Enrichment Underway, Russian Proposal Snubbed
- Assad Shuffles Syrian Government Amid Pressures
- Pentagon 'Leaks' Iran War Plans
- Rice Calls Out Iran, Syria for Inciting Cartoon Riots
- Israeli West Bank Withdrawal Plan Draws Laughter
- Iran Orders IAEA Cameras Out
- Afghanistan Battles Continue
- Iran Sent to Security Council by IAEA Vote
- Hamas & Abbas Agree on Palestinian Parliament
- Cartoon Row
- Battles in Helmand, Afghanistan
- Hamas Ignores Regional Calls for Moderation
- Iran Formalizes Threat of Enrichment
- Foreign Fighters Found in Ramadi
- Palestine: From The River To The Sea
- Adventures in Afghanistan
- January 2006 (44 Entries)
- Iranians Hand Over Basic Nuclear Warhead Designs
- Joining al-Qaeda, Declining al-Qaeda
- Getting It Backwards
- Operations and Negotiations in Iraq
- Will the EU Ultimately Fund Hamas?
- The Hamas Hudna Hoodwink
- False Foreign Fighter Report
- The Iraqi Insurgent Divide Widens
- Hamas Wins, Cabinet Resigns
- Hezbollah Operation Leader with Ahmadinejad in Damascus?
- The Pakistani Frontier
- The Palestinian Vote
- Eight Dead in Iran Bombing
- Iran's Crude for Feud Program
- Iraqis vs. al-Qaeda, Continued
- Bangladeshi Terrorist Commander Believed Captured in India
- Faultlines in Iraq's Islamist Insurgency
- Developments in Damadola
- Election Results; Iraqis Fight al-Qaeda
- Two more al-Qaeda Commanders believed killed in Damadola
- al-Qaeda, Taliban Suicide Attacks Unpopular in Afghanistan
- al-Qaeda Commanders al-Magrabi and Habib killed in Damadola
- Abu Khabab al-Masri Killed in Pakistan Strike
- Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar
- Hunting Zawahiri and al-Qaeda on the Border
- Security Incidents in Iraq
- al-Qaeda Branching into Lebanon, Hezbollah Unimpressed
- al-Qaeda Attacked: Zawahiri Dead?
- The Iraqi Police and Continuing Operations
- Iran Rattling Diplomatic Sabers
- Iranian Paralysis Broken, Security Council Looms
- al-Qaeda vs. the Iraqi Insurgency
- Iran Countdown to Showdown?
- The Waziristan Problem
- Ariel Sharon and The Tale of Two Elections
- al-Qaeda Attacks the Iraqi Police
- Iranian Paralysis
- Blowback from the Ramadi Attack
- Syria, Who Is Next?
- al-Qaeda Counteroffensive
- Ramadi Operations Continue
- Global War, Global Enemy
- Syrian Convulsions: Assad Called out
- A Failed Offensive
- December 2005 (38 Entries)
- The Future Fight in Iraq
- Counterterrorism Efforts in Arabia
- Enter al-Qaeda
- From Syria with Love?
- Iran on Nuclear Talks: "Slower, please."
- Post Election Developments
- Israel Declares "No Man's Land" Along Gaza Border
- PFLP's Nablus Commander Killed in Raid
- Israel Pulls Plug on Jerusalem Polls
- Progress in Iraq
- The EU's New Resolve on Iran
- GCC Summit Gets Tough on Nukes
- Operation Moonlight, with a Twist
- al-Qaeda's Democracy Problem
- Election Reflections
- Ahmadinejad Gets The EU's Attention
- Voting in Barwana
- Red on Red in the West Bank and Gaza
- Jihadis, Elections and Ramadi
- Mehlis Report II
- An Interview with Major General Huck
- On Route Michigan
- A Shift in Operations
- Hamas to End Truce as Tensions Mount
- Afternoon with the Azerbaijani
- A Tale of Two Borders
- On the Offensive in Ramadi
- Patrolling Haqlaniyah
- Diverging Relations
- On the Euphrates
- Gaza Strip Flares Up
- After Rivergate
- US, Israel Differ on Post-Assad Syria
- Iran Set to Ban IAEA Inspections
- The Teufelhunden of the 3/6
- Turbulence in Palestinian Territories
- The Ramadi Debacle
- The Sulemani
- November 2005 (18 Entries)
- Transferring Control
- Operation Iron Hammer in Hit
- Combined Forces
- Walking Husaybah
- Internal Upheaval in Iran
- The Hounds of Husaybah
- Steel Curtain Unmasked
- Israel Defending on Three Fronts
- Terrorists' Toys For Tots
- Syria Agrees to Questioning Officials
- The Clock Ticks for Syria
- Operational Issues
- Israeli-Hezbollah Skirmishes Continue
- Iranian Nuclear Dance Continues
- Missing Zarqawi
- Rumor and Combat
- Operation Steel Curtain
- Iran's Nuclear Hand
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