Volume 17 Issue 04
Authors: Abdul Sayed , Sudha Ramachandran , Iftikhar Firdous , Iftekharul Bashar
Published: 26 June 2025
South Asia’s Diverse and Evolving Threat Landscape amid rising tensions in the Middle East
Alongside Africa and the Middle East, South Asia remains one of the most-affected regions by insurgencies and terrorism shaped by external powers’ interventions in Afghanistan, inter and intra state rivalries, sectarian fissures, governance deficits and the presence of global militant groups like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISK). While the Taliban’s 2021 return to power in Afghanistan emboldened some regional groups like Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham’s (HTS) success in capturing Syria by ousting the Bashar al-Assad regime has attracted mixed responses from South Asian militant groups.
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