Noor Jalal Jalali, Minister of Public Health, met Thursday with Anthony Dutemple, Director General of the Chain of Hope (CDE), to discuss numerous issues around health. Jalali discussed the organization’s strategy, maternal and child health activities, support for emergency obstetric and gynecological services, provision of training programs aimed at enhancing the capacity of healthcare workers, equipping the cardiac treatment department […]

Why Xi Keeps Winning the Summitry Game In January, after weeks of threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Canada as the “51st state,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, radiating cordiality toward the leaders of a country he had called Canada’s greatest geopolitical threat less than a year earlier. In a […]

Les États-Unis se trouvent à un tournant où deux choix s’offrent à eux. Ils peuvent soit opérer une transition pour passer du statut d’Hégémon mondial à celui d’un pays prospère et pacifique collaborant d’égal à égal avec toutes les autres nations, soit s’obstiner à rester un empire en faillite et violent cherchant à maintenir son contrôle sur toutes les autres […]

Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, warned that military operations targeting militant infrastructure and safe havens inside Afghanistan would intensify, as relations between Islamabad and the Taliban continue to deteriorate over security disputes. Speaking at a high-level security meeting attended by senior military officials, Munir said the presence of militant groups in Afghanistan had produced “reverse consequences” for Pakistan’s security and […]

China is looking to engineer an off-ramp to end the current U.S.-Iran conflict without forcing Tehran to fold. On May 6, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met in Beijing with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the ongoing conflict and deepen relations between Tehran and Beijing — two members of an emerging Axis of Aggressors. The meeting was held […]

Introduction In recent decades, the nature of regional conflicts has shifted from direct warfare to proxy conflicts, with states increasingly pursuing their strategic objectives through the use of non-state armed groups. The Islamic Republic of Iran is among the states with extensive experience in establishing and utilizing proxy networks. The Fatemiyoun Brigade, composed largely of Afghan fighters, forms part of […]

Drawing on ten public discussions from the India AI Impact Summit 2026, this article highlights key outlooks on open source in AI that are likely to shape policy and governance conversations going forward. At the recently concluded India AI Impact Summit, several discussions brought renewed focus to the future of global open-source artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, positioning it as an […]

Mizoram: Reinforcing Peace The developments of April 2026 mark a decisive turning point in Mizoram’s internal security landscape, with the surrender of 43 cadres of the Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) on April 30, 2026, and the signing of the Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) on April 14, 2026, representing the formal conclusion of the last active insurgent movement in the State. […]

Tokyo would have to surmount a lot of obstacles—not least Western sanctions—if it wanted to return Russian oil imports to even modest pre-2022 volumes. About once a year, Japan’s foreign policy establishment discusses an apparently imminent turnaround in relations with Moscow. The triggers vary: a vague statement by the prime minister, or an interview given by a second-tier politician. Most […]

On April 22, 2026, the Afghan media outlet Hasht-e-Subh published a Dari-language article, examining the current situation in the Middle East and arguing that the region is moving away from the post-Cold War order led by the U.S. toward a more unstable and multipolar system shaped by tensions involving the United States, Iran, Israel, and the Arab states, alongside the […]