Asian queen in India, offensive briefly (5)
I believe the answer is:
iraqi
'asian' is the definition.
(Iraqi is an example)
'queen in india offensive briefly' is the wordplay.
'queen' becomes 'Q' (chess abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'offensive' becomes 'raid' (a raid is a military offensive).
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'i'+'raid'='iraid'
'iraid' with its final letter taken away is 'irai'.
'q' going inside 'irai' is 'IRAQI'.
(Other definitions for iraqi that I've seen before include "native of troubled land" , "From a battle zone" , "Baghdad-born?" , "Person from Baghdad?" , "from war-torn nation" .)