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Recalibrating U.S. Foreign Policy: President Trump's May 2025 Gulf Visit and Its Strategic Implications

President Donald J. Trump's May 2025 visit to the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) marked a pivotal moment in the United States' (U.S.) foreign policy engagement in West Asia (the Middle East).[1] During the...

Neighbourhood News Digest - 09 May 2025

Afghanistan Turkmenistan Expands Trade and Transit Cooperation with Afghanistan-Tolo News Turkmenistan’s Foreign Minister has stated that his country will enhance cooperation with Afghanistan in the sectors of railways, trade, and transit. Rashid...

West Asian Leaders and Organisations Condemn Terrorist Attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir

Adversity often becomes a litmus test for friends. It is also not untrue of diplomacy. For decades, India’s relationship with most West Asian countries has been transactional and only recently due to strategic and increasing importance of India and...

Hamas-Pakistan Terror Nexus in PoJK: A Wake-Up Call for Bharat?

दुर्जनः परिहर्तव्यो विद्ययाsलंकृतोऽपि सन्। मणिना भूषितः सर्पः किम् असौ न भयंकरः॥ - ‘नीतीशतक’, राजा भर्तृहरी [English Translation: “A wicked person should be avoided even if adorned with knowledge. Is a snake decorated with a jewel not still...

Neighborhood News Digest- 10 February 2025

Afghanistan Embassy in Ankara Resumes Operations under Islamic Emirate- Tolo News Following the announcement by the Afghan Embassy in Ankara regarding its transfer to Türkiye, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate now states that...

IMEC, a Possibility Put on Hold

Introduction India’s G20 presidency culminated in an ambitious transcontinental dream when New Delhi hosted the country’s first G20 summit in 2023. True to its theme, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or “One Earth One Family One Future”, the India-Middle East-...

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...

Neighborhood News Digest - 09 January 2025

Afghanistan Islamic Emirate: We Have Not Received Any Financial Aid from US-Tolo News Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, has rejected claims of billions of dollars in US aid to Afghanistan, stating that the interim...

Iran: Review of Situation as of December 2024

Right from the beginning of the Gaza Conflict triggered by the outrage of 7th October 2023, it was very clear that Iran did not want a war with Israel. This was partly because Israeli military capabilities by themselves are demonstrably far more...

Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor(21-27 October 2024)

Economic China Sets Date for Key Meeting at Center of Market’s Stimulus Hopes China’s top lawmakers are set to meet early next month, a highly anticipated meeting markets view as a key window to announce more stimulus to boost the economy. The...

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