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Nikita Kohli


Significance of the New Baghdadi Video

Five years after he stood at the pulpit of the al-Nuri Mosque and declared a new Caliphate, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reappeared in a rare video uploaded and dissemated…

Bagdadi Video

Rise and Fall of the Islamic State

The Islamic State (ISIS) is the only terrorist group in recent times to have held control over large territory and to run it with a proper administration. It is also…

Islamic State Isis

Taliban and Talks

Introduction Taliban conducted its deadliest attack yet at the training centre of the National Directorate for Security in Maidan Wardak province, west off Kabul on January 21st, leaving 126 dead[i].…

Afghan Taliban Terrorist 2

Reflecting on 9/11 Seventeen Years on: The Resilience of Al-Qaeda

September 2018 marks 17 years since the devastating 9/11 attacks. Seventeen years marked by an increasing attention being paid to the phenomena of terrorism, and al-Qaeda in particular. Chronicled in…

A Strategic Analysis of the Kabul Peace Process II

Introduction After months of deliberation and internal national consensus building, the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani offered one of the most comprehensive offers a government has made to non-state armed groups…