Afghanistan’s Taliban government vowed Tuesday to “respond appropriately” to overnight strikes it blamed on neighboring Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tensions spiked the day after a suicide bombing in a Pakistani city. An air raid on Khost province left nine children and a woman “martyred,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid posted on X, blaming Pakistani forces and saying the target […]

The house that once stood on the mountainside in Mughulgai village, Gurbaz district, is now only scattered stone and dust. Just hours earlier, it was a family home — filled with laughter, children, and the warmth of a late-autumn evening. By morning, it had become a burial ground. Aslam, who was away on a work trip that night, returned to […]

Pakistan’s military on Tuesday issued a cautious response to Taliban accusations of deadly airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, saying it does not conduct undeclared military operations and “never targets civilians”. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that Pakistani strikes hit parts of Khost, Paktika and Kunar provinces overnight, killing at least 10 civilians. Mujahid described the attacks as “violations and […]

Pakistan’s military denied on Tuesday it had struck neighbouring Afghanistan, rejecting accusations by the Taliban government that it was behind an overnight air raid that killed 10 people near the border. “Pakistan has not attacked Afghanistan,” army spokesman Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in comments carried by state broadcaster PTV, adding that “the allegations of the interim Afghan government […]

In 2021, open-source intelligence efforts revealed a surprising discovery using commercial satellite imagery: China was building at least two silo fields for nuclear missiles. By 2022, a third field was identified. Intelligence experts even speculated that a field in Xinjiang was built with the intention of being found, given its proximity to an infamous “re-education” camp already under international scrutiny. […]

Bottom lines up front Executive summary China’s economic rise and its integration with Africa have catalyzed new infrastructure and industries across the continent. But this also now exposes African countries to negative ripple effects from changes in China’s domestic economy. As China’s investment- and manufacturing-centric economic model loses steam, African officials and policymakers will need to plan for growth and […]

Pakistan security forces killed 23 militants in two targeted operations near the Afghan frontier, the army said Thursday, a week after a suicide bombing killed 12 people in Islamabad. The militants belonged to the Pakistani Taliban or its affiliated groups, the military said in a statement, accusing archfoe India of backing them.

The Alabuga Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) is a cornerstone of the Adversary Entente’s resistance against the US-led international coalition and is emblematic of the symbiotic relationship between its members. What started as a bilateral Russo-Iranian drone production effort in 2022 has expanded into a four-way center of technological and innovative exchange between Russia, Iran, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), […]

For the past eight years, Russia and its fellow U.N. Security Council members have maintained economic sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear testing, including severe restrictions on selling crude oil and refined petroleum exports to the isolated dictatorship. The 2017 sanctions limit total exports of oil products to North Korea to 500,000 barrels per country per year. But an […]

Pakistani security forces killed at least 23 militants during raids on two hideouts in the country’s northwest near the border with Afghanistan, the military said Thursday, amid heightened tensions between Islamabad and the Taliban. The operations took place on Wednesday in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and triggered intense gunfights, according to a statement from Pakistan’s military. No […]