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Israel and the United States are now betting that Iran’s leadership will acknowledge their military and economic weakness and return to the...
Chinese massacres, Zoot Suit beatings, Watts violence, and Rodney King riots show how Los Angeles has always been America's testing ground for racial...
The war India really needs to win is to make Kashmir’s people secure, prosperous partners in the project of India. Each journey on the new train...
Islamabad knows it cannot take Kashmir by force, and yet it persists in waging a war without an end. To give up the conflict would mean giving up the...
Even though the Indian Army had repeatedly war-gamed attacks by Pakistan since at least 1956, Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh said the Pakistani...
The goals India cares about—containing China, targeting jihadists in Pakistan, securing trade routes and energy—don’t seem to matter to Trump.
Adivasis supported Maoists sometimes for tactical gain or to avenge state violence, but had little interest in the project of making a revolution.
Like it or not, the Pakistan Army has shown it is willing to fight. And this has given renewed hope to the pro-Pakistan constituency within Kashmir.
Former US President John F Kennedy’s mediation effort on Kashmir in the 1960s had led Pakistan to sharpen its sword, not beat them into ploughshares.
The end India should seek is the construction of Pakistan other than the country its generals and clerics have imagined into being. Furious words and...
Faced with genuine political resistance in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the Pakistan military’s strategy is nearing irretrievable collapse....
For obvious reasons, international support would be harder to recruit if India were seen as deliberately inflicting drought on millions in Pakistan.
While the Pakistan Army will suffer humiliation if the LoC is pushed westward, a war of attrition could well mean an escalation of terrorism within...
Islamabad has learned that it cannot win Kashmir. The purpose of its military is not to win Kashmir or make strategic gains for Pakistan but to...
Ronen Bar’s affidavit shows Israel still has a core institutional resilience, and individuals of integrity, who can help prevent that outcome. The...
The story of Ubaidullah Abdulrashid Radiowalla shows why Indian authorities have struggled to secure extraditions. The evidence is often murky, and...
The Trinamool government’s efforts to consolidate its ties to Islamic clerics inevitably made religion part of the language of politics.
Through the massive tariffs imposed on China, journalist Will Dunn says, Trump is telling other powers that the price of access to America’s markets...
Trump and Iranian negotiators will have to find guarantees that address the concerns of Iran but also its adversaries like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Tensions have been rising for weeks as jihadists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir breached the LoC. Last month, two Indian soldiers were killed in...
Far from consolidating military authority, the coup of 1975 ushered in a brutal power struggle within its ranks.
Failure by nation-states to implement policies that include and empower vulnerable young people lies at the heart of why organisations like the...
Ever since J&K lost its special status, the Awami Action Committee and the Ittihadul Muslimeen had escaped proscription, with New Delhi hoping its...
The anti-India insurgency in Manipur threw its weight behind reviving pre-Hindu cultural traditions and faith among the Meitei, excluding groups like...
The Pakistani state cannot and will not win unless it abandons the principles of colonial counter-insurgency, which have coated its institutional...
A fifth of the voters in Germany’s just-concluded elections voted for the neo-Nazi party Alternative für Deutschland, which wants to take the...
In recent years, Balochistan has seen new democratic movements. While Pakistan Army may not welcome another insurgency, this is preferable to mass...
A third of US Presidents between 1776 to 1974 demonstrated symptoms of clinically significant depression, bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse while...
There’s a reason to be sceptical about Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace. Efforts to end the fighting in 1993, 1995-1996, and 2013-2015 all led...
A suicide bombing ripped through Pakistan’s Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary last week. It would soon celebrate 200 years of Sayyid Ahmad’s triumph...
The far-right AfD becoming the second-largest formation in Germany's Reichstag raises serious questions about the growing challenges to the democratic...
From swathed privilege in apartheid South Africa to today’s US power corridors, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel laid the roots of Donald Trump’s radical...
It's unclear when Mohammad Usman, a former resident of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was incarcerated. But being an anti-India jihadist no longer...
The Lalit Maken assassination case set the template for charges of police mishandling of evidence and poor investigation, which have stained many...
For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs secure and fair access to...
The figure of the Pakistani immigrant sexual groomer is real—but also serves as a pretext for failing to address toxic youth masculinity and deep...
Like other lone-wolf killers, the narrative around Shamsud-Din Jabbar is that he was seduced by online Islamist propaganda. While this is entirely...
As geopolitical competition intensifies, Trump is determined to exercise more direct, physical control over America’s near neighbourhood.
Sanctions had first been imposed on the NDC in 1998 by Bill Clinton. And they were waived after 9/11 to enable counter-terrorism cooperation with...
Elected on a program of Right-wing populism, Yoon stoked militarism to consolidate power. His opponent was repeatedly prosecuted. South Korea’s...
Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani—brother to Jalaluddin, uncle to his heir Sirajuddin, and a key figure in the network responsible for over 1,000 suicide...
Even though Tahrir al-Sham has promised to protect minorities, and to crush transnational jihadist groups in Syria, exactly what comes next is...
Following 9/11, former first lady of the US, Laura Bush, said, ‘The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.’...
Members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham—or Commission for the Liberation of the Levant—brushed aside the Army’s 46 Regiment and captured Aleppo for the...
The Arakan Army is now estimated to control eight-tenths of the province of Rakhine, raising speculation the region could be the first to be...
Even if the cost of securing democracies against espionage is high, the price to be paid for not doing so could be catastrophic.
There was little Shia-Sunni conflict in the pre-colonial era. In early 20th century, the struggle for political power sharpened the boundaries,...
Each wave of people arriving in America has been decried as unassimilable—only for them to establish themselves as agents of economic growth.
The new jihadists in J&K have harried Indian forces, staged a series of ambushes, and now begun to target Indian civilian infrastructure projects.
Trump’s rise has meant a hollowing out of the unstated social agreement on which all democracy rests. Even if he loses this election, repairing...