Hopefully, the embattled and thoroughly aggrieved Syrians, 13 million of whom have been displaced and refuges for over a decade, will find succour in New Syria and they will not go the Libyan, Yemen or the Iraqi way, observes former diplomat Anil Trigunayat.
West Asia is never quiet. As if the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are not enough, let alone the simmering ones in Libya, Yemen, and Sudan, the past week’s conflagration in Syria has yet again proved that the causes of conflict must also be definitively addressed, especially when a highly complex situation is allowed to take deeper, divisive roots with external powers having their own axe to grind every step of the way.
In the past dozen or so years, India has effectively transformed its "Link West" policy into an "Act West" policy. The transactional partnerships of previous decades have been replaced by a comprehensive, strategic relationship, expanding, renewing, and reigniting the intensity of exchanges at the highest levels.
Whether it is Trump’s diktat to Bibi to finish the job before re-entering the White House or Biden-Blinken persistence that finally paid off—the fact is that peace should always be a more desirable enterprise than starting a factory of war
Ever since Donald Trump has made history in US politics through a sweep across the political spectrum garnering electoral college votes way ahead along with popular votes and securing the Senate and Congress control, the international challenges and the two wars in the European and Middle Eastern context have acquired the center stage as he often made lofty statements of immediately ending them—especially the Russia-Ukraine war.
The consequences of the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine (West) war have polarised the global landscape in unprecedented ways.