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Neighborhood News Digest – 15 February 2023

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Taliban Divided: Interior Min says Afghanistan in “intolerable” state, spokesperson rebuts – Firstpost
Haqqani’s comments came amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeo....

February 15, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , Russia , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Japan , Pakistan politics , Daesh , elections , India-Nepal , Bangladesh , Taliban , Turkey , Imran Khan , neighbours , IMF , Pakistan Economy , NUG , Drugs , Monarchy , BNP , Bhutan Economy , AL , UNICEF , Tamils , Arms Sales , Rampal plant , Jute
Terrorism and Extremism Trends in Bharat: Review of 2022 and Prognosis for 2023
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् | आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मन: || [Transla....

January 16, 2023 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , Terrorism , J&K , insurgency , Daesh , ISIS , LWE , Naxal , Punjab , Taliban , ISI , IslamicState , PFI , Northeast , Extremism , Maoist , Bharat , AlQaida , Khalistan , Islamic , Kanhaiya
Mosul Recaptured: Is This the End of Daesh?
Ramanand Garge

Iraqi Prime Minister Announces the Fall of Mosul July 10, 2017 is rightly being acknowledged as a historic day in the fight against dreaded phenomenon of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) brand of terrorism. The Iraqi Pri....

August 09, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism , Mosul , Iraq , Daesh , ISIS
Joint Military Operations against Daesh in Southern Philippines
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Pertinent Issues Terror as a tool has been used through the ages to achieve political and military objectives. Currently it is often described as Fourth Generation Warfare. Broadly it is an asymmetric tool that is normally used....

July 10, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Terrorism , Daesh , Philippines , Marawi
Attacks in the United Kingdom and the Wider Implications
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

The string of recent attacks in the United Kingdom (UK), in less than three months, has once again brought to the fore the vulnerability, not only of the UK, but of the international community at large, arising from the activities of rabid terrorist ....

June 28, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , Terrorism , Daesh , ISIS , United Kingdom , Manchester
Daesh in Afghanistan: It gets Weakened but Not yet Vanquished in Syria-Iraq
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

It has been a little under two and a half years since January 26, 2015 when Daesh announced in Afghanistan, the establishment of its South Asian affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan (ISK). The outfit’s now-deceased spokesperson Abu Muhammad....

June 12, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Iraq , Daesh , Khorasan , Af-Pak , Daesh in Afghanistan , Syria
Caliphate is Almost Doomed but Problems and the Ideas Remain
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

The anti-Daesh military campaign for the liberation of Mosul in Iraq, which was kick-started in October last year, showed some significant advancement, beginning with the recapture of the town’s eastern neighbourhood by late January this year. With....

May 02, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , Terrorism , Daesh , Islamist radicalisation
The ISIS Phantasmagoria and its Implications for India : Building Capacities to Prevent and Counter Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
Navroz Singh

Rise of a Demonic Force: Daesh Daesh as a tangible entity was in the making for several decades prior to the supposed cut-off date which recognises its meteoric rise in the region, and eventually beyond the borders of the self-pro....

March 30, 2017 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Daesh , ISIS , Al Qaeda , Violent Extremism , Counter Radicalisation
War Against Daesh (ISIS) – An Assessment of Mosul Campaign
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

After having crushed the concept of the Caliphate little over 90 years ago by Kemal Ataturk, the first president of the modern-day Turkey, a renewed effort was made by a newly-founded Sunni militant group, which, today, is known by the name Islamic S....

November 13, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Mosul , Iraq , Daesh , ISIS , IS , Al Baghdadi , Peshmerga , Mosul Campaign , Alvite Singh , Kemal Ataturk
The Crises within Daesh
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

In less than a year, the Daesh as come a long way from being considered as the world’s wealthiest terror organisation in 2014, to struggling to finance its operations in 2016. In mid-2015, Daesh’s overall monthly revenue in the territories under ....

May 11, 2016 Terrorism , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
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