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Kabir Taneja

Kabir Taneja

Articles by Kabir Taneja

Peace deal a way to avoid conflict for US, strengthens Iran’s hand in West Asia

US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding early on June 18, ending a regional war that erupted on February 28.

Updated on Jun 19, 2026 03:10 IST

Pakistan and Iran: An awkward tango at play

The current bonhomie between Pakistan and Iran is devoid of history, reality, and is founded on the need of the hour of both countries. They both gain individually by participating in this short-term political soiree. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 2, 2026 14:58 IST

Reading the tea leaves in the conflict in West Asia

American planning relies on three assets — technology, supremacy in the skies, and clandestine operations inside Iran largely dependent on Israeli capabilities (AFP)

Updated on Mar 10, 2026 15:33 IST

Jordan and India: The fight against extremism

India’s security cooperation with Jordan comes at an opportune time and Modi’s visit to Amman added a personalised touch to bilateral relations. (AFP)

Updated on Dec 27, 2025 14:53 IST

Homegrown blueprints for countering terrorism

Investigations into the November blast have revealed a network of actors involved in terror and extremism that managed to penetrate the national Capital. (ANI)

Updated on Dec 2, 2025 16:42 IST

Between New Delhi & Kabul, a fine balance

For New Delhi, while hosting Muttaqi is a good and unavoidable strategy, the dance is delicate. (ANI)

Updated on Oct 13, 2025 15:11 IST

Chinese checkers with Pakistan and the Taliban

Going forward, Beijing may find itself as a sole security guarantor to try and make sure that the Taliban and Pakistan do not disintegrate into chaos. (AP)

Updated on Sep 8, 2025 15:27 IST

Post-Assad Syria’s search for its place in an evolving international order

The city of Homs, a rebel stronghold during the Syrian Civil War. (Shutterstock)

international affairs

Updated on Aug 16, 2025 11:48 IST

India must build on the US action against TRF

Pakistan’s visceral reaction against TRF terror listing is a rare victory for India considering it has historically had a lonely journey to market Pakistan’s promotion of its terror agendas. (ANI Photo)

Updated on Jul 21, 2025 16:06 IST

Iran and Israel: Shadow war now out in the open

Israel has orchestrated a war led by its intelligence units to degrade Iran’s nuclear programme and delay the time frame within which it could develop a bomb. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 16, 2025 13:55 IST

After Operation Sindoor, a diminished terror landscape

While countering terrorism remains a priority, within strategic and political thinking, Pakistan and its support for terror should not become India’s strategic identity (PTI)

Updated on May 12, 2025 18:32 IST

What Pahalgam says about counter terrorism realities

Intelligence as the the first line of defence needs further fortification (PTI)

Updated on Apr 28, 2025 14:35 IST

Diplomatic paths diverge in Syria and Afghanistan

Today’s engagement in both Afghanistan and Syria are designed around a revolving door approach, both engagement and disengagement, while avoiding major costs (AFP)

Updated on Feb 26, 2025 14:23 IST

Political reality of Taliban marks presence in Delhi

(FILES) Taliban security personnel ride a vehicle in front of the former US Embassy as they celebrate the third anniversary of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in Kabul on August 14, 2024 (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Nov 18, 2024 14:28 IST

Afghan common ground in India-Russia relations

TOPSHOT - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a ceremony to decorate India's PM with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 9, 2024. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Jul 10, 2024 15:57 IST

After Gaza, backsliding of counter-terrorism narrative

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 22: New York University students set up a "Liberated Zone" tent encampment in Gould Plaza at NYU Stern School of Business on April 22, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Updated on Apr 28, 2024 17:15 IST

Working with Tehran on the Red Sea crisis

This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows a Houthi forces helicopter approaching the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Yemen's Houthis have seized the ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen after threatening to seize all vessels owned by Israeli companies. AP/PTI(AP11_21_2023_000102A)

Updated on Jan 17, 2024 20:31 IST

Kokernag attack points to fluid terror geography

Security forces on their way to the encounter site in Garol, Kokernag, in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Updated on Oct 12, 2023 16:50 IST

Has Wagner spelt the end of private armies?

Membes of the Wagner Group military company sit atop of a tank on a street in Rostov-on-Don.

Updated on Jul 24, 2023 03:05 IST

Countering terrorism should find space in all multilateral debates

India has tried to keep international terrorism as a primary issue in global forums, and this practice should be strengthened, including in the G20 (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 13, 2023 09:10 IST

India brings the world’s focus back on terrorism

External affairs minister S Jaishankar speaks during the third 'No Money for Terror' conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, November 19, 2022 (PTI)

Updated on Nov 24, 2022 15:50 IST

Why the UN must evolve to fight modern-day terror

The body may find it hard to keep up to speed with the nature of modern terrorism unless it evolves its own structures to reflect the world of today and tomorrow.

Updated on Oct 25, 2022 13:50 IST

After Zawahiri, what lies next for al-Qaeda

Al-Zawahiri, born in Egypt and a trained doctor, exchanged his stethoscope for a Kalashnikov, and became Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man after al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) allied in the 1990s, and merged into a single entity in mid-2001, a few months before 9/11. (AFP)

Updated on Aug 29, 2022 14:14 IST

Three events that illustrate India’s Taliban outreach

Engagement at certain levels for India with the Taliban is inevitable and a need of the hour for its own geopolitical and strategic interests, as it was in the 1990s.

Updated on May 30, 2022 14:35 IST

The arrival of strategic autonomy in the Gulf

It was the UAE’s abstention from the UNSC vote against Russia that caught attention recently, considering Abu Dhabi’s close partnership with the US.

Updated on Mar 28, 2022 11:04 IST

The risks and dangers of foreign fighters taking up arms to fight in Ukraine

This is believed to be sniper Wali, one of the deadliest snipers of the world, who has joined Ukraine's fight against Russia and is also documenting his journey.

Updated on Mar 15, 2022 13:34 IST

The fractured diplomacy of countering terrorism

Today, one way or another, the world is divided on how to deal with the Taliban regaining control over Afghanistan.

Updated on Feb 1, 2022 09:51 IST

What the Taliban–IS rivalry means for S Asia

Afghan scholar and diplomat Mohammed Moheq has highlighted the differences between the Taliban and the IS as strategic and cultural, rather than tactical.militants have since surrendered to the government (Getty Images)

Updated on Dec 16, 2021 14:29 IST

The US-Taliban deal on Afghanistan is not a ‘model’

Ultimately, it was a recipe to hand the Afghan geography to the insurgency itself, with the Afghan government abandoning its people and the country’s armed forces dissolving within months of this agreement (AP)

Updated on Oct 26, 2021 13:30 IST

Afghanistan’s anarchic jihadist landscape

An internally displaced Afghan girl carries a child near their shelter at a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. (REUTERS File)

Updated on Aug 27, 2021 12:33 IST

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