In his memoirs, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalls a significant event from 2013 when then-US Secretary of State John Kerry proposed a secret visit to Afghanistan to see US-trained forces: “Bibi, I want to arrange a clandestine visit for you to Afghanistan. You’ll see with your own eyes what a great job we did there to prepare the Afghan […]

Will Camp David redefine Northeast Asian Security? It certainly encapsulates a definitive moment in the Northeast Asian strategic landscape. Yet, the key question remains: How consequential will the United States (US)–Japan–South Korea Trilateral prove to be in upholding the rules-based regional order, and winning President Biden’s ‘competition between democracies and autocracies’? While Beijing is upending the US-led regional order in […]

Government-Backed Intolerance Is Tearing the Country Apart Starting September 9, New Delhi is scheduled to host the G-20’s 18th annual summit. The event, in the eyes of the Indian government, will mark the country’s growing international importance. “During our G-20 presidency, we shall present India’s experiences, learnings, and models as possible templates for others,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared […]

Southeast Asian countries must avoid following in the footsteps of Ukraine and beware of being used as geopolitical pawns by foreign forces that are sowing discord in the region for their own gain, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned. “The crisis in Ukraine has sounded the alarm for mankind, and similar tragedies must not be staged in Asia,” China’s […]

The head of a delegation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said in a meeting with the acting minister of hajj and religious affairs that the organization will cooperate with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) in various areas including education and development as needed. According to a statement released by the ministry on Sunday, Qutb Muhammad Sanu congratulated […]

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has said that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) is dealing with the water rights issue a lot better than former president Ashraf Ghani did. “We will not forget what statement the then president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani used while inaugurating the Kajaki Dam, but the ruling body of Afghanistan clearly stated many times […]

Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s chief of army staff said Monday that for 20 years Afghanistan’s enemies tried hard to divide the country and its people but following the IEA’s takeover, plots by enemies failed and the people once again united. Speaking at a large public gathering in Takhar province, he said: “Before this, we saw that […]

Abstract: Starting around February 2023, a wave of Taliban operations against Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) led some observers to herald the Taliban’s “counterterrorism” capabilities and declare ISK a defeated, or at least irrelevant, organization. Across the Durand Line, however, in July 2023, ISK perpetrated one of its deadliest attacks since its official formation in 2015, which left over 100 casualties […]

There’s a paradox at the heart of U.S.-China relations—one the Washington foreign policy consensus doesn’t seem to rightly comprehend. On the one hand, Beijing stands with Moscow as one of just two plausible rivals to U.S. power on a global scale. China’s nuclear arsenal is smaller than Russia’s, but it’s backed by a markedly larger defense budget and GDP. A […]

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the economic deputy of the prime minister, said in a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador in Kabul Hassan Kazemi Qomi on Saturday that Afghanistan does not interfere in the domestic affairs of any country and does not allow anyone to interfere in its internal affairs. According to a statement released by Baradar’s office, the two sides discussed […]