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Iran and the US held secret talks in order to end the Houthi attack on commercial vehicles in the Red Sea. The talks brokered by Oman took place in January. …

As fighting in Gaza tests Hamas’ stamina to wage war, the Palestinian extremist group is furious with Iran and Hezbollah for refusing to open a second front, to relieve some …

As the  Israel-Hamas war completes one month, Gaza remains a witness to a constant siege that has left countless civilians dead, with casualties mounting to over 300 Israeli Defence Forces …

Last week’s Organisation of Islamic Cooperation/Arab League failed to find a consensus among member states to adopt a unified stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict. It however signalled that the competition …

As Gaza plunges into another communications snap, the blackout of internet and cellular services points towards an escalation in armed confrontation between the Israel Defence Forces and Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that …

Iran, one of the key supporters of Palestinian armed group Hamas, has been the most active on the diplomatic front to drum up support for the Palestinian cause and even …

India, a leading power of the Global South, made its position clear on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly that the ongoing Israel-Hamas War sprouted from the “terror …

Around 13 attacks have targeted US and allied forces’ bases in Iraq and Syria in the past one week. All attacks, the Pentagon confirms, have taken place with drones and …

After Hamas, Hezbollah – translating as Party of Allah — is the face of resistance to Israeli occupation of Palestine. Since the Israeli retaliation in response to October 7 Hamas …

In the fog of war, it sometimes becomes hard to pick your real enemy. That seems to be the case in the Israel-Hamas war. A fortnight into the war triggered …

No intelligence is perfect, more importantly no intelligence agency is. Even the finest intelligence agencies have, throughout history, delivered faulty assessments. For Mossad, Israel’s finest Intelligence service—superior in training, dedicated …

The Hamas-Israel war that began last Saturday is facing a stalemate. 10-days after it began, it is focused on opening humanitarian supplies to 1.2 million residents of embattled Gaza strip. …

With Israeli Defence Forces encircling Gaza, military experts are beginning to anticipate Lebanon’s response, with escalating border clashes pointing towards skirmishes along a second front. If the conflict prolongs, this …

Amid the fog of war, the accumulation of war material in the eastern Mediterranean stands out as the fulcrum that could define the course of the on-going Hamas-Israel war. The …

The signals of endgame in the Hamas-Israel conflict hint towards more dire consequences. While the Israeli assault in Gaza continues to pile up humanitarian catastrophe, new fronts are set to …

The United States and Qatar have agreed to deny Iran access to $6 billion recently transferred to the nation as part of a deal between Washington and Tehran that led …

Grandmaster of diplomacy Henry Kissinger shot to cult status as the greatest strategist negotiator after his role in bringing Israelis and Arabs to the dialogue table after the 1973 Yom …

The Hamas-Hezbollah versus Israel conflagration is said to have an active Iranian role. The flare-up that threatens to engulf the entire West Asia, if not stopped, kicked in a week …

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist, was named as the recipient of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her …

Ever since the eventful return of Taliban in Afghanistan, their relations with neighbours like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Iran continues to be complex, with a strong undercurrent of hostility. …

Bengali polymath and Asia’s first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore binds India to countries in West Asia through literary fabric. Tagore, whose artistic and literary pursuits turned him into a ‘universal …