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Neighborhood News Digest – 10 February 2023

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Putin Says Afghan Humanitarian Condition Has 'Deteriorated' – Tolo News
Russian President Vladmir Putin pointed out that the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated, with "four million" Afghans needin....

February 10, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , US , China , Russia , Nepal , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Nepal politics , Bhutan , Japan , Pakistan politics , ISIS , India-Nepal , Bangladesh , Saudi , Taliban , Oil , Geopolitics , IMF , ISKP , Neighbourhood , Pakistan Economy , Business , Rohingyas , US-Nepal , Pak-Afghan
Peshawar Mosque Attack: “Snake Bites its Snake Charmer”
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

कर्म प्रधान विश्व रचि राखा। जो जस करहि सो तस फल चाखा।।

(translation: Deeds are of supreme importance in this universe. Whatever a person does, he is pu....

February 08, 2023 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , India , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Islamic State , ISIS , Taliban , TTP , Extremism , Bharat , Al Qaida , Islamic Terror , JuA , ISI Terrorism
Terrorism and Extremism Trends in Bharat: Review of 2022 and Prognosis for 2023
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, 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
India-Africa Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

“We are very conscious of the expanding threats posed by radicalism, fundamentalism, and terrorism to African societies. These have been the subject of our contemporary agenda of cooperation.”

- Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minster....

October 31, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Article , India , Islamic State , Africa , Terrorism , ISIS , Al Qaeda , Counter terrorism , France , Somalia , Mali , Nigeria , Al Qaida , JNIM , DRC
Tracing the Future of India-Africa Defence Cooperation
Samir Bhattacharya Article

In his address to the Ugandan Parliament in July 2018, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi enunciated the ten guiding principles of India's engagement with Africa and elucidated the importance of each principle. Principle number seven of India's deve....

August 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Africa , Article , ISIS , Cyber Security , SAGAR , Islamist terrorism , African Union , Afindex 19 , Al Shabaab , India Africa Defence cooperation , IBSAMAR , Lucknow Declaration , Military Coups , UNPKO
Ayman al-Zawahiri is Dead: The Ending of a Chapter of al-Qa’ida’s Founding Fathers!
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

On 02 August 2022, United States (US)’ President Joe Biden made a public announcement about a successful counter-terrorism operation carried out by the US forces in Kabul, Afghanistan. On 30 July 2022, on command of US President Biden, the Central ....

August 04, 2022 Terrorism , International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Pakistan , US , Afghanistan , Terrorism , ISIS , Taliban , IslamicState , AlQaida , AlQaeda , Zawahiri , OsamaBinLaden , AymanZawahiri
The Presence of Islamic State-Khurasan Province in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

नाततायिवधे दोषो हन्तुर्भवति कश्चन । प्रकाशं वाप्रकाशं वा मन्युस्तं मन्युमृच्छति ॥
May 26, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , India , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Islamic State , Terrorism , J&K , Iraq , ISIS , Syria , Taliban , ISKP , Al Qaida , Kerala
Global Terrorism Trends in 2021 & Projections for 2022
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

संधिविग्रहयोस्तुल्यायां वृद्धौ संधिमुपेयात्।
[Translation: If there is an equal benefit in peace or war, he (the king) should choose peace.] ....

April 12, 2022 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Israel , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Islamic State , Terrorism , Iraq , ISIS , Syria , West Asia , Counter terrorism , America , Sub Saharan Africa , Al Qaida
Terrorism Studies (National): Review of 2021 & Projections for 2022
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Despite the outbreak of the China-origin coronavirus aka COVID-19 in late 2019 and the continuation of this fatal virus spread globally in 2020, the year 2021 has witnessed the continuation in the terrorism-related incidents, linked directly or indir....

January 14, 2022 Terrorism , Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , India , Pakistan , Islamic State , J&K , ISIS , LWE , Punjab , Counter terrorism , AlQaeda , Srinagar
The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: A Turning Point in Global Terrorism
Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

“Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”1
- George W Bush 43rd President o....

September 15, 2021 Terrorism , International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , Afghanistan , ISIS , United States , Intelligence , IslamicState , counterterrorism , 9/11 , September 11 attacks , AlQaida
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