Pakistan’s chief minister of Balochistan said security forces killed 145 militants within 40 hours following coordinated attacks across the province. Sarfraz Bugti told a news conference in Quetta on Sunday that the bodies of those killed were in the custody of security agencies. Pakistani media described the figure as the highest number of militants killed in such a short period […]

Managed Stability Sri Lanka entered 2026 with a security environment that remained broadly stable but layered with unresolved structural vulnerabilities rooted in post-war reconciliation failures, persistent diaspora activism, narcotics trafficking, and evolving regional security dynamics. While the country continued to record an absence of terrorism-linked fatalities, sustaining its position among the lowest-risk nations globally, the year nonetheless underscored the paradox […]

In recent years, there has been growing concern that the United States and China might find themselves in a war over Taiwan. Such worries overlook an important fact: Washington and Beijing are already at war. But as David Shedd and Andrew Badger document in their new book, The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets, only one side […]

La sécurité de l’Eurasie constitue un élément fondamental de la stabilité du système international. Alors que le processus de transition de puissance s’accélère au XXIe siècle, garantir une stabilité durable en Eurasie est devenu l’un des enjeux les plus critiques de la sécurité internationale. En avril 2022, le président chinois Xi Jinping a présenté l’«Initiative pour la sécurité mondiale (ISM)», […]

Key Takeaway: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has expanded his military purges to include two of the seniormost officers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Xi may have purged them because he saw them as undermining his leadership and military objectives. The continued purges have reduced the Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2023 from seven members to […]

At least 10 Pakistani security personnel and 37 militants were killed on Saturday during what authorities described as coordinated attacks by separatist fighters across the southwestern province of Balochistan. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement that security forces repelled multiple assaults and killed 37 insurgents, while suffering 10 fatalities among their ranks. Provincial government spokesman Shahid Rind said […]

Afghanistan’s former vice president Amrullah Saleh said on Tuesday that the United States transferred tens of millions of dollars in cash to the Taliban this month, an allegation that neither US nor Taliban officials have publicly confirmed. Saleh said in a post on X that the United States handed over $45 million in cash to the Taliban in Kabul on […]

Taliban have spent nearly half of public expenditure on security in the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, while the economy faced mounting pressures from falling incomes, migrant returns and trade disruptions, the World Bank said in its latest assessment. In its December 2025 Afghanistan Economic Monitor, the World Bank said security-related expenditure reached 96.9 billion Afghanis ($1.4 […]

A coordinated rebellion is quietly reshaping global finance – one that aims not just to escape dollar tyranny, but to bury it. “American hegemony helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes … We participated in the rituals and largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and […]

Quand l’infiltration devient une arme, seule la discipline d’État empêche l’implosion. Il faut sortir du commentaire superficiel et regarder le cas chinois avec la froideur d’un stratège. Ce qui se déroule au sommet de la hiérarchie militaire chinoise n’est pas une simple chronique de corruption, encore moins un «fait divers politique». C’est un événement doctrinal, un signal brutal adressé au […]