Afghanistan’s Taliban claimed Tuesday that their crackdown on illegal drug production in the country has helped address a major global challenge but expressed frustration at the ongoing lack of international support in response. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi told a national labor conference in Kabul that his country used to be the world’s largest opium-poppy producer. It was detrimental […]

The appearance of Indian-made ammunition in Ukraine has caused a heated discussion in the expert community, creating a ground for speculations regarding India’s political course. A number of expert assessments boil down to the fact that India made a mistake by trusting the importing countries, which did not miss the opportunity to supply Indian ammunition to Ukraine. Some experts believe […]

For most of the three decades since gaining independence in 1991, Turkmenistan has been left out of discussions on Central Asia and the role of both north-south and east-west transportation routes linking the region to the rest of the world. Ashgabat seldom released much data about itself or allowed others to collect it. Analysts and commentators writing on Central Asia […]