The Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s leading security summit, takes place in Singapore since its inception in 2002. It has been organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), think tank based in London. The name of the fo...
The SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting 2023 under the chairmanship of India was held on April 28, 2023, in New Delhi. Alongside the member states, two observer countries, Belarus, and Iran, also participated in the meeting. During the meeting, ...
The Middle East region has been marked by a long-standing rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, fuelled by sectarian, ideological, and strategic factors. The escalation of tensions between the two powers in recent years has contributed to ...
The McMahon Line divides India's northeast region from China's Tibetan region. It was proposed by Henry McMahon, a colonial administrator for the British, during the Shimla Accord talks between the Chinese and British governments in 1914. T...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has marked its one-year anniversary since the outbreak of hostilities on February 24, 2022. The anniversary of the war has brought attention to the ongoing crisis, highlighting the continuous struggle between the...
On July 27, 2022, a large group of Iraqi protestors led by the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attacked the Council of Representatives of Iraq building in Baghdad's Green Zone. The storming often referred to as the "Ashura Revolution" or the ...
After World War II, the world was characterized as bipolar with the presence of the United States and the then-USSR. But after the Cold War, the United States became the only superpower or hegemon, and the world became unipolar. However, si...
The year 2021 marked two decades since the term "BRICS" was first used by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in the early 2000s to refer to the four rapidly developing nations that appeared most likely to start catching up to the We...
On August 18, 2022, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal left for Iran on a four-day visit. He evaluated the first phase of the Chabahar port's development, connected with the top officials from Central Asian ...
The 15th and 16th of September 2022 marked the 22nd annual summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The first physical meeting since the pandemic, this meeting brought ...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Myanmar to its category of “high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action” popularly referred to as the “Blacklist”. The statement from FATF stated that Myanmar continuously showed a l...
After the withdrawal of the United States from the Iran nuclear deal or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), fresh indirect negotiations are taking place between the US and Iran with the mediation of the European Union. President...
