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The American Standpoint and the West Asian Quagmire

West Asia and its conflicts remain embedded in public awareness as a kind of stalemate and a quagmire which has the liability of conflict and war written all over it. Great power interventions have been a bane of existence for the beleaguered region ....

January 15, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Iran , West Asia , Houthi , Hezbollah , Hamas

Syria is the Game Changer for Big Powers

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Some dates go down in history as unprecedented and unanticipated developments usher in often unexpected and unannounced outcomes. Moreover, wars and their impacts are not unconnected or limited to a particular geography. October 7, 2023 terror attack....

January 02, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Palestine , India , US , China , Iran , Syria , Turkey , Hamas

Israeli Effort to Delegitimise and Destroy United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Gautam Sen Commentary

At the behest of the Netanyahu government of Israel, the Knesset – the country`s parliament had passed two controversial resolutions on 28th October this year, demanding the disbandment of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on the groun....

December 26, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , UNRWA , Hamas , ICJ , ICC , Knesset Resolution 28th October 2024 , Phillipe Lazarini , Address UNGA 6th November 2024 , Funding UNRWA

The Hostage Issue in the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Dr Hirak Jyoti Das Article

On 7 October 2023, Hamas’ military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, supported by Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) Al-Quds Brigades, launched over November 21, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Hezbollah , Hamas , Benjamin Netanyahu , Palestinian Islamic Jihad , Yoav Gallant

West Asia Peace: The Lost Chance in Camp David Summit of 2000

Rajesh Singh Commentary

The Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis and all those others pitted against Israel in the ongoing conflict in West Asia have demanded that Israel should vacate the territories it has occupied; territories they that they say belong to the Palestinians. If Israe....

October 08, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Palestine , Iran , Hamas , Yasser Arafat , Ehud Barak , Bill Clinton , Camp David Summit 2000 , Mosab Hassan Yousef

Israel’s conundrum about the Day after Scenario in Gaza Strip

Dr Hirak Jyoti Das Article

Israel's security policy has been influenced by a deep sense of regional isolation, vulnerability and asymmetry in terms of small territorial size, limited population, lack of strategic depth, diplomatic weaknesses, limited strategic and economic ass....

September 25, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Joe Biden , Hamas , Palestinian Authority , Benjamin Netanyahu , Abdel Fattah el-Sisi , Philadelphi corridor , Rafah corridor

Israel and the HHH- War of Attrition and Revenge

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

July 31 was the casting date for a much-feared escalation in the Middle East as Israeli leadership acknowledged killing of the Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr (July 30) but keeping enigmatic silence on the killing of the Hamas top leader and negotiator ....

August 28, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , Gaza , Houthis , Netanyahu , Hezbollah , Biden , Hamas , Ismael Haniyeh

Assassination of Hamas Leader Haniyeh in Tehran

Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Since the missile exchange between Israel and Iran in April last, the tensions in the region had subsided though the war in Gaza was simmering. There was some hope that Israel and Hamas were nearing a deal on hostage release and ceasefire. The target....

August 09, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Israel , Iran , Gaza , UN , Hezbollah , Hamas , Haniyeh , Palestine authority

Neighborhood News Digest- 02 August 2024

Afghanistan

Ministry of Economy: Work On Over 1,300 Projects Ongoing-Tolo News

Officials from the Ministry of Economy said during a program on Thursday that outlined the achievements of the past year that work is ongoing on ov....

August 02, 2024 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , Maldives , Iran , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Bangladesh , EU , World Health Organization , IMF , United Nations , Hamas , South Africa , India-Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka Presidential Election , Quota Protest , Maldives- India Relations , UN.

Hellfire from the Heavens – A Perspective on Contemporary Aerial Strikes

Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Punitive response with the employment of air power is nothing new, and goes back to the British ‘watch and ward’ missions that the Indian Air Force undertook with the Royal Air Force in 1937, towards policing the recalcitrant tribes of Waziristan....

June 04, 2024 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Missiles , Iron Dome , Ukraine , Gaza , GPS , Air Power , Hamas , Drones , VKS , rockets , Electronic warfare , Katyusha rockets