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…
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…
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].…
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…
