America has become an imperial power that aims to invade and dominate the weak countries. This tendency has created global insecurity and led America to lose wars. In terms of natural resources and firepower, America dominates like no other country. It has the largest and most flexible military, the most weapons, and the most devices to spy on and kill […]

Local sources told Amu TV that the Taliban’s justice ministry headed by Abdul Hakim Sharaee has closed three more institutions serving the Shiite community in western Kabul, including a medical clinic, a religious school and a cultural center, expanding a series of closures targeting Shiite-linked institutions in the capital. According to the sources, the centers include Al-Zahra Clinic, the Tebyan […]

Iran has spent recent years expanding its engagement with the Taliban administration while rejecting armed opposition to their rule, but a new wave of closures targeting Shiite-linked religious, cultural, educational and medical institutions in Kabul is exposing tensions in that relationship. The latest closures include the Fatima al-Zahra Clinic, the Tebyan Center and the Resalat religious school in western Kabul, […]

When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held consecutive Beijing summits, Western observers fixated on a false binary: Is China tilting toward Moscow or Washington? This framing amounts to a fundamental category error. Beijing rejects old balance-of-power logic and never faces a forced choice between great powers. Its foreign policy is bound to five unchanging operational pillars: sovereign independence, mutual respect […]

Key Takeaways: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is often described as a security grouping led by China and Russia. That is true, but no longer appropriate. An organisation formed to ease tensions along the former Sino-Soviet border now includes India, Pakistan, Iran and Belarus. It brings together governments divided by territorial disputes, wars, rival partnerships and sharply different ambitions. It cannot […]

Key Takeaways: Afghanistan reduced the area devoted to opium poppy cultivation from approximately 232,000 hectares in 2022 to 10,200 in 2025. The scale of this decline raises three related questions that require different answers. First, can state intervention drastically reduce a major source of drug production? In Afghanistan, the answer is yes. Second, has that reduction produced an effective contraction […]

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the UN General Assembly that armed groups including Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Balochistan Liberation Army are operating from Afghanistan and carrying out attacks aimed at destabilizing Pakistan. Sharif, addressing the 81st session of the General Assembly in New York, called on Taliban authorities to take “verifiable, decisive action” to ensure Afghanistan’s territory is not […]

Taliban authorities and the Afghanistan Freedom Front have reported heavy fighting in eastern Nuristan province in the east, offering conflicting accounts of casualties and control of territory. Taliban officials said 28 opposition fighters were killed and 32 others detained in the clashes in Kamdesh district, but they did not disclose casualties among their own forces. The Afghanistan Freedom Front, an […]