International Relations in India & Beyond
Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s party swept an Iraqi election on Monday, coming first and increasing the number of seats he holds in parliament, according to initial results, officials and a spokesperson for the Sadrist...
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the chaotic international evacuation effort shows that Europe needs to develop its own military capacity independent of the United States, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell...
Today, all of us know the sole power in the world is the United States of America. All the world politics directly or indirectly revolves around the USA or somehow for or by the...
When Jorge Mario Bergoglio took over the Papacy from Pope Benedict XVI as Pope Francis in 2013, he became a man of many firsts. He became the first Pontiff, and also the first Pope,...
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles….Our rendezvous with victory is very near”- Then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in a speech on January 6, 1991. The...
The resurgence of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria is predominantly composed of Saddam Hussein’s militants, not new recruits. Former Iraqi officers who were led by Hussein allegedly continue to dominate the...
The state of Iraq in which shares its borders with Iran in the East, Jordan in the west, Syria in the North-West, Turkey in the North and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the South...
A bout of renewed concerns regarding ISIS has surfaced in the global scenario. There is an uptick in the activities of the infamous terror outfit that was once an authoritative force which controlled an...
Iraq’s military said on Thursday it was resuming operations with the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, which it had halted after the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. forces and Iran’s retaliatory...
The Founding Fathers had high hopes that military adventurism could be prevented through constitutional checks. As Alexander Hamilton wrote: “The legislature…will be obliged…every two years, to deliberate upon the propriety of keeping a military force on...
