Four Taliban cabinet ministers have visited India over the past nine months, highlighting growing engagement between New Delhi and the Taliban as their relations with neighboring Pakistan remain strained. The latest visit came last week, when Ataullah Omari, the Taliban’s acting minister of agriculture, traveled to New Delhi at the head of a delegation. His trip follows earlier visits by […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it will continue expanding relations with the Taliban regardless of whether Tehran formally recognizes their rule, describing recognition as a separate political and legal process. The comments come as Iran maintains close diplomatic and economic ties with the Taliban while stopping short of officially recognizing their rule. Speaking at a news conference, Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for […]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Quadcopter Proliferation On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter drone strike on his residence in the Ladha area of South Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On July 7, 2026, one civilian was killed and four were injured after terrorists […]

Forecasts that oil could reach $200 a barrel spread rapidly at the start of the US-Iran war and experts pondered whether the Strait of Hormuz could remain closed for a prolonged period. But these dire predictions never materialised. The highest level the global benchmark price, Brent crude futures, reached was $126. Even that spike was brief. Before the recent escalation […]

It’s been 10 years since the arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued the so-called South China Sea “arbitral award” on July 12, 2016, but some scholars — particularly those from claimant states — continue to celebrate it as a decisive clarification that reshaped the maritime claims and long-standing disputes in […]

Documents on the secret negotiations between Russia and China, which were at the disposal of The Insider (and verified by the publication), confirm that military cooperation between the countries has gone deeper than it was publicly known. Among other things, China has involved Russia in the program to combat the Starlink satellite system Elon Musk, which includes both legal and […]

Many jihadists, building on the Palestinian model, increasingly see Kashmir as prime land to conquer: the next great cause for global jihad. Pakistan has actively enabled and amplified this jihadist narrative by positioning itself as the foremost protector of Muslims, effectively asserting ownership over Kashmir. In June 2026, Pakistani paramilitary forces opened fire on protesters in… Kashmir. The protesters were […]

The resurgence of armed confrontations between the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) signals the re-emergence of one of Manipur’s most enduring intra-Naga rivalries. Although both organisations remain engaged in separate peace processes with the Government of India (GoI), recurrent gunfights across Tamenglong, Noney and Kangpokpi Districts indicate that negotiated arrangements have done little […]

Consultez chaque jour le compte Telegram de Robert Steuckers (liens vers des articles, dans les six langues de l’Académie Royale) : t.me/steuckers La rivalité sino-américaine est devenue l’une des questions déterminantes de la politique internationale. Les décideurs et les universitaires des deux côtés de la barrière se sont retrouvés à discuter, à plusieurs reprises, d’un historien grec mort il y […]

China is not imperialist The claim that China has become an imperialist power is now routine in Washington, the corporate press, and parts of the left influenced by liberal geopolitics. It is repeated so often that it passes for truth. But it collapses under Marxist analysis. Imperialism, as Lenin defined it, is not simply “big-power behavior.” It is a stage […]