NEW DELHI: Lebanon is facing a disaster, said Prime Minister Hassan Diab, hours after the port area of capital Beirut was shaken by powerful explosions that reduced homes to rubble, littered streets with broken glass and debris, killed dozens and injured thousands besides being heard and felt in Cyprus 200 kilometres away. Shortly after the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “India has rebranded itself in the Gulf,” and like a lot of countries has “taken advantage of U.S. security architecture,” to play a much greater role in recent years, Jonathan Fulton, Assistant Professor at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed University tells Amitabh P. Revi, StratNews Global Associate Editor in this interview. “India is seen as […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China’s ties with Pakistan go back decades. If I’m sitting in New Delhi, a Beijing-Tehran strategic deal is a big geopolitical win and certainly not good news for India,” Alex Vatanka, the Director and Senior Fellow, Iran Programme, Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Though India’s involvement in […]Read More
The $400 billion Iran-China deal announced the other day opens up the Islamic Republic’s banking, telecommunications, ports, and railways to Chinese investment. In return, Iran will supply China with oil at discounted rates over a period of 25 years. But the ‘icing’ may be in the fine print. With so much Chinese money flowing into key sectors […]Read More
It’s been less than three months since 27 Afghan Sikhs were killed in an attack on a gurudwara in Kabul. The Islamic State Khorasan Province or ISIS-K claimed responsibility. One of the attackers was Mohammed Sajid Kuthrimal from Kasaragod in Kerala! Viewers will also recall StratNews Global’s exclusive video report on the interrogation in Afghanistan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Under fire over the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests at home, the Trump administration received a major jolt as five Iranian oil tankers recently reached Venezuela carrying refined fuel. The fact that Iran under ‘maximum pressure’ from the U.S. would reach out openly and defiantly to another nation suffering from similar U.S.-led sanctions, was […]Read More
Editor’s note: This is a live unedited stream from Bandar Abbas, Iran and may experience technical network issues. NEW DELHI: Over 200 Indians are being brought back from Iran on board the Indian Naval amphibious warship INS Shardul. The first batch of 200 plus fishermen from Gujarat are being repatriated on a 1650 km journey from […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The drama that began in Saudi Arabia after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey may well be into its last act, especially after his family pardoned the killers. His eldest son Salah Khashoggi tweeted, saying: “we the sons of the Martyr Jamal Khashoggi announce that we pardon those who killed our […]Read More
NEW DELHI: (Editor’s note: This interview was filmed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and India’s worldwide repatriation of its citizens) India is in the first week of Mission Vande Bharat and Operation Samudra Setu, with 15,000 people expected to be brought home in the first wave. The second week from May 16 will see bigger […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When an Indian based in the UAE put out some Islamophobic tweets recently, it evoked outrage on Twitter in the Arab world. Princess Hend Al Qassimi, a member of the UAE royal family responded with a series of tweets, among them one which reminded the Indian that anyone who was “openly racist and […]Read More
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