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A year of war on Gaza

(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs exper...

The ‘Axis of Resistance’: Iran’s forward defence network

The 1979 Iranian revolution, which saw the fall of a thousands-of-years-old monarchy and spawned the...

How Israel took the war straight to Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’  

On April 1, 2024, when Israel bombed the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus killing Brig. Gen. Moha...

Hassan Nasrallah, the cleric who lived and died in war

When Hassan Nasrallah, then 32, became the Secretary-General of Hezbollah in 1992, after the assassi...

How will Hezbollah chief Nasrallah’s killing impact West Asia?

The story so far: It’s been almost a year since the latest Gaza war began. And now, Israel has shift...

Pokrovsk: The Russians are coming

The Russians turned to Pokrovsk, the eastern Ukrainian city with a pre-war population of about 70,00...

From Taiwan to Lebanon via Hungary: The trail of exploding pagers

On Sunday (September 15, 2024), Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, told his security Ca...

Analysis: Why Hasina fell?

Sheikh Hasina survived the carnage of August 15, 1975 by sheer chance. Ms. Hasina, who was then 28, ...

Mohammed Deif, Hamas’s shadow commander   

On October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants were carrying out a deadly attack in Israel, Mohammed Deif ...

What does Haniyeh’s death mean for Israel-Iran rivalry? Watch: Who was Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader killed in Iran?

On July 20, Israel carried out a massive air strike on Hodeidah, the Red Sea port city in Yemen, tha...

Who was Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader killed in Iran?

“They are living on borrowed time,” Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said after the October 7 a...

Masoud Pezeshkian | Keeper of Iran’s reform hopes 

For change in the minds of fanatics... For the longing for a normal life... For the girl who wished ...

The View From India | What’s next for Trump after conviction?

(These article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs expe...

Is a future Palestine state possible? | Explained

The story so far: Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel and the latter’s continuing war on Gaza h...

How will Iran President’s death impact the region? | Explained

The story so far: The death of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s President, and eight others, including Foreign ...

What comes next for Iran after Raisi’s death?

Being Iran’s President is not easy. The highest elected office in the country is not the most powerf...