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West Asia

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

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

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....

April 29, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , Iran , Saudi Arabia , West Asia , Terror attack , Turkey , Pahalgam

The American Standpoint and the West Asian Quagmire

Dr Manan Dwivedi Article

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 ....

January 15, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Iran , West Asia , Houthi , Hezbollah , Hamas

Syria is the Game Changer for Big Powers

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Some dates go down in history as unprecedented and unanticipated developments usher in often unexpected and unannounced outcomes. Moreover, wars and their impacts are not unconnected or limited to a particular geography. October 7, 2023 terror attack....

January 02, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Palestine , India , US , China , Iran , Syria , Turkey , Hamas

Iran: Review of Situation as of December 2024

Kingshuk Chatterjee Commentary

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 sign....

December 18, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , IRGC , Hezbollah , Benjamin Netanyahu , Masoud Pezeshkian

Reimagining India’s Economic Engagement with the West Asian Region

Prof Sameena Hameed Commentary

India's economic engagement with the West Asian region, of which many countries are in its extended neighbourhood, is more of an impulse driven by age-old civilisational exchanges. So, one must return to the basics of our relationships, geographical ....

December 17, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , India , INSTC , CEPA , I2U2 , IMEC

The Hostage Issue in the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Dr Hirak Jyoti Das Article

On 7 October 2023, Hamas’ military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, supported by Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) Al-Quds Brigades, launched over November 21, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Hezbollah , Hamas , Benjamin Netanyahu , Palestinian Islamic Jihad , Yoav Gallant

Peace in West Asia in the wake of Iran-Israel conflict

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

West Asia: The Smoldering Cauldron

Alfred Thayer Mahan- a US naval officer is credited to have named the region as West Asia in 1905- which was earlier known as part of Middle East (Middle East was a term coined by the British who divide....

November 19, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , West Asia , Hezbollah , Iran Israel conflict

Israel’s conundrum about the Day after Scenario in Gaza Strip

Dr Hirak Jyoti Das Article

Israel's security policy has been influenced by a deep sense of regional isolation, vulnerability and asymmetry in terms of small territorial size, limited population, lack of strategic depth, diplomatic weaknesses, limited strategic and economic ass....

September 25, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Joe Biden , Hamas , Palestinian Authority , Benjamin Netanyahu , Abdel Fattah el-Sisi , Philadelphi corridor , Rafah corridor

Israel and the HHH- War of Attrition and Revenge

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

July 31 was the casting date for a much-feared escalation in the Middle East as Israeli leadership acknowledged killing of the Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr (July 30) but keeping enigmatic silence on the killing of the Hamas top leader and negotiator ....

August 28, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , Gaza , Houthis , Netanyahu , Hezbollah , Biden , Hamas , Ismael Haniyeh

Pezeshkian as President: What Might this Mean for Iran and India

Kingshuk Chatterjee Article

Election for the presidency of the Islamic Republic in Iran has brought into limelight the unlikely figure of Masoud Pezeshkian, who beat the arch-conservative Saeed Jalili in the run-off held on 5th July 2024. Winning by a good nine percentage poin....

July 15, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Ebrahim Raisi , Reformist bloc , Hijab laws , 2022 protests , Saeed Jalili