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West Asia Round-up - April 2019
May 9 , 2019 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Hirak Jyoti Das, Associate Fellow, VIF
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After eight years of Arab Spring the plight of the Libyans continues unabated. General Khalifa Haftar, debunking the proposed conference (power sharing agreement) that could have ushered in some stability through a dialogue among all stake holders , launched a military offensive (LNA- Libyan National Army) to swiftly take over the capital Tripoli and Western Libya

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Re-emergence of Islamic State’s Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
May 9 , 2019 Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF C D Sahay
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On Saturday, April 27, 2019, Islamic State’s (IS) central media outlet, Al-Furqan, released an 18-minute propaganda video featuring its ‘underground’ leader and self-proclaimed ‘Caliph Ibrahim’, Abu Bak...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Tags : Al-Baghdadi’s video , international terrorism , Islamic State Caliphate

राफेल दस्तावेजों पर सर्वोच्च न्यायालय
May 7 , 2019 Rajesh Singh
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राफेल के बारे में जो दस्तावेज मीडिया में प्रकाशित हुए थे और जिन पर भरोसा कर याचियों ने सौदे की जांच की मांग की थी, उन पर केंद्र की आपत्तियों को सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने खारिज क्या किया राजनीतिक तूफान खड़ा हो...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , राफेल , सर्वोच्च न्यायालय

Terror Strike in Sri Lanka: Expanding Footprints of Jihadist Movement in the Indian Subcontinent
May 6 , 2019 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)
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In the 20th Century, the world confronted three totalitarian revolutionary movements: Nazism; communism; and fascism. Now the world is under assault from a fourth such movement whose members operate under many labels as part of global Jihad.

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

The Second Belt and Road Forum
May 6 , 2019 Dr Gunjan Singh
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The second Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in Beijing from April 25-27, 2019. The first BRF was held in 2017. This BRF saw the participation of more than 150 countries underscoring the argument that ...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Global interest on BRI , Second Belt and Road Forum , Xi Jinping’s benign narrative

Sri Lanka: Need to Repair Political and Security Architecture
May 3 , 2019 PM Heblikar
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The Easter Sunday Church Bombings (April 21, 2019) in Colombo and other parts of Sri Lanka has altered the internal security situation and the political arithmetic in that country. The Islamic State of...

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Counter-terror intelligence , Easter Bombings , Sri Lanka terror attack

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