News Digest
TURKMENISTAN REPORTEDLY PLANS TO EXPORT GAS TO CHINA
By empty (1/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
China and Turkmenistan are readying an agreement to build a pipeline to transport Turkmen natural gas to China. Zhang Guobao, deputy minister of China\'s National Development and Reform Commission, is due to arrive in Ashgabat on 18 January for talks to draft the agreement, which is expected to be signed when Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov visits China in April. Niyazov told a cabinet meeting on 16 January, \"Gas will be pumped to China from the right bank of the Amudarya River.KILLING NOT TO AFFECT CANADA ROLE
By empty (1/16/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Canadian government has said the killing of one of its senior diplomats in Afghanistan will not affect its commitment to rebuilding the country. Glyn Berry, political director of a reconstruction team, was killed by a suspected suicide bomber in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday. Two Afghan civilians were also killed and 13 others, including three Canadian soldiers, were injured in the attack.‘ZAWAHIRI’ STRIKE SPARKS PROTESTS
By empty (1/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A missile strike apparently targeting al-Qaeda\'s deputy leader in a village in Pakistan has prompted Islamabad to protest to its American allies. Ayman al-Zawahiri was not in the village on the border with Afghanistan, Pakistan officials said. But the attack left at least 18 local people dead.290 MILITANTS ELIMINATED IN NORTH CAUCASUS IN 2005
By empty (1/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Head of the regional headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Col. Gen. Arkady Yedelev has summed up the results of operations in 2005.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.