The withdrawal of American troops from the Afghanistan in August 2021 was a turning point in the geopolitics of the region, thus creating a place for other actors to step in the place of the Western coalition. And within the past few years, China has significantly escalated its participation in Afghanistan due to commercial and security motives. As is true […]

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan forces on Sunday “neutralized” a group of militants in a raid on a suspected ISIS stronghold in Ghor province. According to Zabihullah Mujahid, the IEA’s spokesman, the group “had orchestrated an attack targeting Shia civilians in the capital of Ghor on the 12th September 2024, resulting in the deaths of approximately 20 civilians.” He said the […]

On June 12 this year, the European Commission (EC) announced plans to impose temporary anti-subsidy duties on electric vehicles (EVs) imported from China starting July 4. On August 20, the EC disclosed a draft decision to impose final anti-subsidy duties on pure EVs from China, with minor adjustments. BYD, Geely, and SAIC Motor would face tariffs of 17.0%, 19.3%, and […]

Insurgencies, ethnic tensions and confrontations between local separatist groups and state security forces have long marred Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The violent attack on 11 October 2024 at the Junaid Coal Company mines in Balochistan’s Duki district, where armed militants killed 20 miners and injured several others, serves as a stark reminder of the region’s ongoing instability. Although no group has […]

What would happen if China launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at US forces in the Indo-Pacific? China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has invested extensively in its standoff capabilities and in a high-intensity conflict would be capable of inflicting severe damage on US and allied forces. Even if the United States is successful in winning such a war, this scenario […]

How to Avert Catastrophe at the World’s Most Dangerous Flash Point By almost universal agreement, the Taiwan Strait has emerged as the most combustible flash point in the world. In recent years, China has dramatically increased the scale and intensity of its military operations around Taiwan, responding to what it claims are provocations by the island’s government and the United […]

In the months before Russia’s expanded invasion into Ukraine in 2022, six planners meeting in a nondescript room in the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe-Africa (USAREUR-AF) frantically developed various options for the employment and positioning of forces across NATO’s eastern flank to avert, or at least limit the harm resulting from, the impending calamity. The commanding general of USAREUR-AF wanted […]

The CSTO the drill, from October 11 to 14, included Russian, Kazakh and Kyrgyz forces and aimed to train them in fighting illegal armed groups planning to attack the region The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) announced that the organization held military exercises at the Harb Maidon training center in Tajikistan, close to the Afghan border. According to a statement […]

The Islamic Emirate confirmed late Wednesday it has initiated an investigation into allegations that over 200 Afghan migrants were shot dead on the Iran-Afghanistan border by Iranian military forces on Sunday. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, said in a post on X that “various governmental bodies and diplomatic missions of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have initiated comprehensive investigations […]