Analysis

Sourav Ghosh and Shalabh Chopra Through joint communique delivered at the end of the recently held Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of the G7 countries- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States sought to show the world that international cooperation was …

Aneeqa Safdar The Israel-Palestine conflict is reckoned as one of the enduring conflicts of contemporary times with the ‘’Question of Palestine’’ being on the United Nations (UN) agenda since 1947. This conflict exacerbated because of the Arab-Israel War of 1967 when Israel seized, what were historically known as …

Amjed Javeed The situation in Afghanistan is in a state of flux. Even before vacation of the notorious Bagram Airbase, the taliban have been encircling major Afghan cities under hostile rule. Though well trained and well armed, the Afghan troops usually preferred to take to heels rather than …

Giancarlo Elia Valori It is now ten years since a peaceful demonstration against Bashar al-Assad’s regime organised by students in Deraa was brutally repressed by police and government forces, thus triggering a chain of events that plunged Syria into a terrible civil war. The fighting – which saw …

The movement and spread of the armed militias associated with the Iranian regime expanded until it began to assume false names for them or far from the real names of the militias operating in Iraq, which gain their power and influence from the support they receive from the …

Principlist Ebrahim Raisi was elected Iran’s next president on 18 June 2021. He will succeed moderate President Hassan Rouhani in early August. Raisi will enter office at a crucial juncture as Iran and the West are engaged in ongoing technical negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known …

Maya Carlin If our strategic allies in the Middle East cannot rely on the United States for air-defense technology and support, they may turn to our adversaries to do so. The Biden administration is withdrawing several air defense assets from countries across the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, …

Robert Kelly The cause of this latest round of food insecurity is apparently the weather. North Korea is once again having food shortages. This is by now a well-known problem, and the government is at least admitting it this time. When North Korea last experienced major food insecurity—in …

Nimra Saif The Arctic Region has been on a journey of geographical transformation induced by Climate Change. There has been an unprecedented percentage of what can be called as ‘Arctic metamorphosis’, witnessed as deterioration of climate twice as rapidly as in any other parts of the globe. There …