Author: Poornima Balasubramanian
India’s relations with West Asia has not always been smooth. It has had and has been having its share of complications fuelled by external influences and domestic politics. The ties have been seeing ups...
Way back in 2009, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) approved a plan to connect the Persian Gulf region with railways for better interconnectedness between the resource-rich states, which was first brought to the tables...
India’s prospects of building the Chabahar rail link and developing the Farzad-B gas field has diminished after Iran’s recent move to undertake the projects on its own. This comes at a time when China...
The Syrian Arab Republic held parliamentary elections on Sunday, 19 July 2020. For the first time since the beginning of the civil war in 2011, polls were conducted in the areas that were formerly...
In a revolutionary move, the Council of States, Turkey’s top court, pronounced that Hagia Sophia will be reconverted into a Mosque from a Museum. Hagia Sophia has a glaring history. Built as a patriarchal...
In a very recent escalation in the U.S.- Iran tensions, Tehran had appealed to the Interpol on June 29, to arrest President Donald Trump and 36 other officials responsible for the killing of Quds...
On Sunday, an airstrike was launched on Syria’s eastern city, Al Bukamal. Although the Syrian Human Rights Observatory has speculated that Israel may have carried out the strike, the state has not confirmed it....