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Caliphate is Almost Doomed but Problems and the Ideas Remain
Dr 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
Dr 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
Dr 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
Losing Territories, the new challenge for Daesh
Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

For an outfit like the Islamic State or Daesh, which swears by its ambition to establish a global Caliphate, loss of territory is definitely a setback. A US-based information agency estimated that between 1 January and 14 December 2015, Daesh’s ....

April 13, 2016 Terrorism , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Syria: The Russians are leaving, or are they?
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Russian President Putin’s decision to pull out his military resources from Syria has been received with much skepticism and analysts are pulling out all the stops to examine the decision from every angle. Till late the Russian Air Force was using i....

April 02, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Daesh in Iraq: A Concern for Iran
Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

Living with challenges has become a norm for the Islamic Republic of Iran. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it witnessed some mega problems, including eight-year war with Iraq, controversial nuclear programme, international sanctions, etc. Curre....

March 30, 2016 Terrorism , Iran , Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Libya: An Emerging Model for the Islamic State
Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

Introduction Instability created by terror-related activities is not a new phenomenon in the Maghreb region or Northwest Africa. Looking at the present scenario in this region, there are no signs of improvement, particularly on security sph....

March 05, 2016 Terrorism , Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria , Libya
An UN Resolution on Syria : About Time
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

It is rare to see the international community coming together on any issue which threatens the collective security of the world at large. When Daesh emerged as the freshest scourge everyone knew that it was flush with funds looted from the Mosul trea....

December 22, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy , Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , Syria , UN Resulation
India Wakes up to ISIS Threat
Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

India and the ISIS It is undeniable that the influence of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) is not seeped into the Indian society even though it has not staged any attack inside the country. Ever since this outfit announced its cal....

October 05, 2015 Islamic State , Daesh , ISIS , IS , Syria and Iraq , Radicalised Muslim
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