Islamic State

Iran mourns those killed in Islamic State-claimed deadly attacks as death toll reaches to 89

The two attacks on Wednesday killed at least 89 people and wounded about 280 others, authorities said Friday in an update of the death toll. The attacks have sparked condemnation from around the world, even amid Iran's wider tensions with the West over its nuclear program.

Iran: Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly attacks that killed nearly 100 people, Tehran vows revenge

The attack Wednesday in Kerman killed at least 84 people and wounded another 284. It targeted a ceremony honouring Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, held as an icon by supporters & viewed by the US military as a deadly foe who aided militants who killed American troops in Iraq.

Vantage | Why Islamic State eyeing Pakistan isn't surprising yet worrisome

With the right intentions, Pakistan can end this threat, but the right intentions are not its strong suit

India’s national security strategy in 2023 and the imperative for continuity in 2024

India needs the US, but it equally needs Russia, a nation with whom the country experienced a reliable relationship

Vantage | What's behind Philippines battle with Islamic State?

As the Philippines grapples with the aftermath of the Marawi bombing, the nation stands united against the threat of religious extremism

Head-on | Biden-Trump rematch exposes broken US politics

A new opinion poll conducted by The New York Times-Siena College projects that if the presidential election pitting Donald Trump against US President Joe Biden was held today, Trump would win a comfortable majority

Slaughtering women, kids for storming of a mosque? Hamas brutes are terrorists using humans as shield

Hamas always uses Gazans as human shield in wars with Israel—this time, it is Israeli civilians

Israel must now defeat, not just contain, Hamas

Israel has no choice but to change its policy towards Hamas from containment and deterrence to decisively defeating it to make sure it will not be able to rearm itself

What does Israel’s terror crisis mean for India?

Lashkar-e-Taiba, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan, various Khalistan extremists, and the Islamic State Khorasan will each seek the limelight by upstaging the Hamas attack in audacity and scale

Global Watch | Pakistan’s failure to deal with twin Taliban can lead to Af-Pak clash

The Pakistan Army’s plan to tame TTP through the Taliban government in Kabul has failed miserably and it is unlikely to succeed in future