On 6 May 2021, Maldivian ex-President and the current Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Nasheed was gravely injured in a bomb attack. Post an intense lifesaving surgery, Nasheed seems to be stable, but the same cannot be said for the Maldivian n...
Oliver Roy, one of the leading French political scientists who worked extensively on "a different view of radical Islam", distinguishes Islamism and neo-fundamentalism. While differentiating these two tendencies, he defines that the former ...
US – Indonesia relations underwent a major twist of change when United States under Obama administration recognized the critical importance of Asia Pacific region and Indonesia under President Joko Widodo strengthened its commitment to the ...
India has long tried to push the world’s attention toward international terrorism and with this in mind, New Delhi had put forward a draft on “Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism” to the General Assembly in 1996. The South A...
The issue of terrorism has affected every continent in some form or another. Islamic terrorism in the form of terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS have terrorized different part of the world and have incurred a huge amoun...
India and Philippines have signed the defence cooperation agreement in the year 2006. Since then there have been regular interactions between armed forces personnel, and also liaison visits by the high-ranking officials, and naval ships.&nb...
On July 2020, the Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. The Act was approved by both the Philippines’ Senate and House of Representatives in February and June 2020 respectively. This new legislation w...
Radicalisation is a phenomenon which is worrying and sometimes deadly all around the world. It has been 19 years since the 9/11 attacks which shook the world. However, most of the governments have not been able to create offensive/defensive...
States have been the most essential unit since the Treaty of Westphalia. The world has seen the entry of many new actors, but the state remains the most fundamental unit in international relations. The 9/11 attacks represent a major shift i...
Islamic State (IS) emerged as splinter group from a faction of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, during a chaotic conflict in 2003 after the United States led invasion. The vision, which still remains constant, is to establish an ‘Islamic Caliphate’, cover...
The suicide attacks on Easter Sunday a year ago by the nine suicide bombers belonging to National Thawheeth Jama'ath (NTJ), linked to Islamic State (ISIS), killing over 270 people and injuring several others, appears to be more closely link...
The deadliest suicide bombings in Sri Lanka’s recent history occurred one year ago on Easter Sunday shocking the island nation and the governments around the world. In the space of half an hour from 8:4...
