One fundamental change in India’s policy under Modi has been to avoid directly countering China’s expanding commercial footprint inside India’s neighbouring nations. China has created an added challenge for India in that the southern country’s work with its neighbours appears diminished, even disinterested, in comparison to the high speed delivery of China’s mega projects.
The SCO members commit to jointly oppose any form of unilateralism and trade protectionism; all but India endorse China’s Belt and Road Initiative
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ISIS’s reclusive leader has taken a rare risk at an unusual moment: in 2019 the “Caliphate” is gone and Baghdadi has to move around clandestinely in a hostile environment patrolled by the most powerful military in the world. It remains to be seen if the frequency of Baghdadi’s media appearances will change significantly in the future.
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Kazakhstan’s repatriation of 231 of its citizens from conflict sites in Syria and Iraq, earlier this month has been welcomed by an independent UN expert
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Islamic State (IS) claimed for the first time that it has established a “province” in India, after a clash between militants and security forces in the contested Kashmir region killed a militant with alleged ties to the group.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hyperactive foreign policy of the last five years has resulted in the CCIT being endorsed at various bilateral and multilateral summits, including the 2016 Non-Aligned Movement Summit, as also at successive India-Africa, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and BRICS summit meetings.
The jihadists who carried out the Easter massacre in Sri Lanka were educated members of their country’s elite, a background that’s closer to the terrorist norm than the exception
Move comes as a huge diplomatic win for India
While warfare has always been deemed a part of a man’s world, history has documented the participation of women in organized violence.
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Sri Lanka attacks send message that ISIS ‘caliphate’ may have fallen, but the Salafi-jihadist concept lives on
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