Residents of Kamdesh district in Nuristan told Amu TV that security conditions have largely returned to normal after five days of heavy fighting, though the district remains under tight security with a large Taliban presence. The Taliban district governor in Kamdesh also confirmed to Amu TV that the fighting had stopped but declined to provide further details. Late Tuesday, Sept. […]

The nuclear relationship between China and the United States is increasingly shaped by widening perception gaps rather than deliberate strategic design. IntroductionThe nuclear relationship between China and the United States and its allies is increasingly shaped by widening perception gaps rather than deliberate strategic design. While both sides share a fundamental interest in avoiding nuclear conflict, they diverge on core […]

Space is becoming an increasingly contested domain as major powers expand military capabilities, satellite infrastructure, and counterspace systems, while the U.S. Golden Dome initiative reshapes strategic stability and raises new questions about the future of space governance. On 14th September 2026, US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink confirmed that the US has “on-orbit” weapons capable of safeguarding the […]

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 […]