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West Asia Roundup– February 2020
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

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US-Taliban
After a weeklong trial halt in violence by Taliban against US or Afghan targets the Peace Agreement was signed between US and Taliban in Doha that seeks to end the 19 years old war and presence of US for....

March 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , India , US , Saudi , Taliban , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , Iranian elections , Qatar hosts peace agreement , Idlib conflict , Hosni Mubarak’s death
Turkey using refugees as a leverage
Rajesh Soami Commentary

Turkey has aided all shades of Syrian rebels (except the Kurds) with arms and other kinds of support in the Syrian civil war since it began in 2011. The Turkish army has also launched incursions across the border and now controls swathes of territory....

March 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Erdogan , Syrian civil war , Moscow , Assad regime , Islamic radicals , EU policy , Migrants , refugees , Greece
The Changing Trends in Libyan Civil War
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

The civil war in Libya has its roots in the 2011 Arab Spring protests against the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The protests began after Day of Rage was announced in Benghazi on 17 February 2011 and quickly spread to other parts of the state. Th....

February 20, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Muammar Gaddafi; Fayez al-Sarraj; General Khalifa Haftar; NTC; GNC , GNA; LNA; Berlin Conclusions; proxy war
West Asia Roundup - January 2020
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

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The year ended on a sombre note and 2020 woke up to more accentuated volatility in West Asia pursuant to the targeted killing of highly influential Iranian IRIGC General Qassem Soleimani by the US drone strikes in Iraq ( ....

February 13, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Berlin Conference , US-Iran tensions , The Demise of Sultan Qaboos of Oman , US drone strikes in Iraq
Exploring Iran’s Domestic Dynamics towards the US
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

The internal political dynamics in Iran are divided into three blocs namely the clergy, the technocracy and the military and security forces. The interplay between the three blocs into the clergy-military; military-technocrat and clergy-technocrat al....

January 31, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , West Asia , Article , JCPOA , IRGC , Kataeb Hezbollah , Hassan Rouhani , Qassim Soleimani , Popular Mobilisation Forces , Iran-US tensions
Libya – the Unfortunate Domain of International Competition: Berlin and Beyond
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Soon it will be almost a decade of destruction in Libya which in many ways could be the worst extension of the four decades of Gaddafi’s autocratic rule. On February 17, 2011 ecstatic Libyans had jubilantly marched their revolution for a ‘New Lib....

January 27, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Libya , General Haftar , Tripoli , Tobruk , GNA , UNSMIL , Erdogan
सुलेमानी की हत्या: आगे क्या?
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

चूंकि कासिम सुलेमानी गुप्त तरीके से काम करने के लिए बनाई गई रणनीतिक सेना के कमांडर होने के नाते ....

January 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , ईरान , सुलेमानी , अमेरिका , आईएसआईएस
Analysing Iran’s Counter Strikes
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

Iran on 8 January 2020 launched 22 surface-to-surface missiles at two US military bases in Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and one facility in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.1 The operation called, “Shahid Soleimani” has been....

January 17, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , IRGC , Operation Shahid Soleimani , Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) , Kataeb Hezbollah , War Powers Resolution
Trump and Iran: Who Lost More?
Amb K P Fabian Article

The media as well as some scholars refer to “Iran-U.S. confrontation” giving the wrong impression that both sides are equally responsible for the genesis of the current crisis in their relations, a crisis that brought the world to the brink of di....

January 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , West Asia , Article , China , Russia , JCPOA , Soleimani , Hague Convention , Ukrainian plane crash
West Asia Roundup - December 2019
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

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Year 2019, in keeping with the ongoing trend of conflicts and hotspots in the region, ended in heightening tensions between US and Iran which does not portend well for 2020. Iraq has been facing series of demonstrations and co....

January 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , US , Iran , Qatar , Islamic Ummah , Developments in Algeria , Attack on Southern
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