Political Risk

We continue to see the possibility of another military confrontation between Israel and Hizbullah, with rhetoric between the two parties intensifying and a new intelligence report... 2008-11-27

A parliamentary committee in Egypt has warned that there are serious risks to security in the Sinai area because of heavily armed Bedouin residents, asserting that local security... 2008-11-26

Israeli and Jordanian officials confirmed on November 20 that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Ehud Barak secretly visited Amman two days previously to hold... 2008-11-21

BMI View: We stand by our view that a peace deal between Israel and Syria is possible, but recent developments prove that the process will be a complicated one.

An Egyptian court has ruled in favour of a motion to ban natural gas exports to Israel. Egyptian natural gas consortium EMG began exporting the shipments under a US$2.5bn deal, which... 2008-11-18

The Muslim Brotherhood has today submitted a memo to the Egyptian parliament accusing the government of 'failure in facing frequent disasters occurring in Egypt, attributing this... 2008-11-17

The truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has all but broken down. We believe that the appetite for renewing the ceasefire is waning in both camps, making an escalation of hostilities... 2008-11-14

The swift release of the 25 Egyptian police officers captured by Bedouin kidnappers in the Sinai peninsula will limit the damage of the incident, but it adds to a generalised view... 2008-11-11

The Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Fatah al-Islam continues to make the headlines, in spite of the army's apparently decisive campaign against it in 2007, most recently with the... 2008-11-10

Egypt's opposition al-Ghad party has seen its offices stormed and set on fire today, as supporters of the jailed former leader Ayman Nour clashed with those of his successor, Mousa... 2008-11-06