Open Briefing: Sudan's economy faces potential collapse. However, its current risk profile will deter many lenders from issuing new loans. As such, debt relief will most likely be the dominant form of any financial relief provided to Sudan.
Category: Intelligence desks
Intelligence brief: Recent nuclear-related developments at the Parchin military complex, Iran
Open Briefing: Recent developments at Iran's Parchin military complex centre on apparent sanitisation and landscaping efforts around a suspected explosives chamber, which suggest it is highly likely any nuclear-related activities at PMC have been suspended.
Intelligence digest: Middle East, 25 November – 1 December 2012
Open Briefing: Security news and strategic analysis from across the Middle East. Includes the Israel's response to Palestine's upgraded UN status and Pakistan's test of a nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
Intelligence digest: Middle East, 18-24 November 2012
Open Briefing: Security news and strategic analysis from across the Middle East. Includes the regional fallout from the eight day Israel-Gaza conflict and the rebel capture of a helicopter base only 10 miles east of Damascus, Syria.
No ordinary trial by fire for Israel
Open Briefing: While Israel – and Hamas for that matter – has the right of self-defense, it must take the lessons of Cast Lead and the Second Lebanon War to heart by meticulously observing proportionality, military necessity and the protection of civilians.
Intelligence digest: Middle East, 11-17 November 2012
Open Briefing: Security news and strategic analysis from across the Middle East. Includes the escalation of the Israel-Gaza conflict and the recognition by Paris and Ankara of the Syrian National Coalition as the representative of the Syrian people.
Intelligence brief: Fatal ambush on police officers in Samburu district, Kenya
Open Briefing: The fact that poorly equipped and inexperienced police officers are being tasked with tracking increasingly well-armed cattle rustlers and other criminals in Kenya suggests that the trend in fatal attacks on officers will likely continue.
Intelligence digest: Middle East, 4-10 November 2012
Open Briefing: Security news and strategic analysis from across the Middle East. Includes the arrest of two members of the Kuwaiti ruling family for tweets deemed critical of the government and the murder of the chief of an anti-Taliban peace committee in Pakistan.