Al-Qaeda's newest victims;

"

Status of forces"

on hold;

All eyes on the Strait of Hormuz;

Turmoil in Turkey;

An Islamist attack in Uzbekistan?

Hezbollah hunkers down;

In the Muslim Brotherhood, a boost for radicals;

Common enemies in Uzbekistan;

Fatah under seige in Gaza;

Solidarity across the Islamist divide...

A Central Asian union in the works?;

Turkey's political scene erupts...;

...but U.S. intel courtship continues;

Egypt's perpetual state of emergency;

Syria talking... and hedging

Abkhazia flirts with Moscow;

...While Georgia discovers its own admirer;

Iran, Hezbollah teach new tricks...;

... And open old wounds

Syria,nukes, and North Korea;

In Iraq, two steps forward;

Pipelines and Politics in Central Asia;

PKK threatens Washington;

A Europe-Afghan railroad in the works?