Representatives from 10 countries attending the 7th Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan reaffirmed their support for a stable and independent Afghanistan and rejected any deployment of foreign military infrastructure in the country or its neighbors, according to a joint statement issued Tuesday. The meeting, held on October 7, brought together senior officials and special envoys from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, […]

Beijing’s Reluctance to Engage With the U.S. Military Has Never Been More Dangerous On October 24, 2023, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber was flying a nighttime mission in international airspace over the South China Sea when it was intercepted by a Chinese fighter jet. In a series of dangerous high-speed maneuvers, the jet pilot flew within ten feet of […]

“There is increased propensity amongst nations and governments to use force because political objectives today can be achieved by short duration conflicts,” India’s Chief of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan said on August 26, 2025, while speaking about the evolving nature of warfare. “Precision strikes create very little collateral damage, hence the cost of war for nations is less,” he […]

These reports remain unconfirmed at the time of writing, but they aren’t unreasonable since India has every reason to want to deprive its rival of this high-quality equipment after their latest clashes in spring, though so too does Russia have its own reasons for defying this request like the reports claim. Indian outlets like India.com and DNA India reported that […]

The Israeli genocide of the Palestinians has persisted for two years —a “live-streamed genocide”, as Amnesty International called it in its April 2025 annual report. Thus far, Israel has murdered over 66,000 Palestinians —the overwhelming majority of whom are civilians; 20,000 of the dead are children, meaning a Palestinian child has been killed every hour since October 2023. Two million […]

On September 29, 2025, President Trump has unveiled a 20 point peace plan to end the two year long Gaza genocide by Israel. The proposal comes, amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza, that caused enormous human suffering of human life that was never heard of since World War II. The plan is offered at a time when global outcry condemning […]

Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is expected to travel to Russia next week to attend the Moscow-format meeting on Afghanistan, sources told Amu. The trip is scheduled for Oct. 6 and will include a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed. The Taliban have not yet commented publicly. Muttaqi’s planned visit comes despite his being […]

Food prices rose sharply in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s 48-hour nationwide internet shutdown, with residents and traders in Kabul and Helmand reporting sudden jumps in the cost of basic goods. In Kabul, the price of a sack of flour climbed by about 100 afghanis ($1.50), while rice rose by 150 afghanis ($2.20) and cooking oil by 50 afghanis ($0.70). A […]

A great unanswered question of the second Trump administration has been how its outright rejection of the existing global order would affect China’s international strategy. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called this order both “obsolete” and “a weapon being used against” the United States, and in his speech at the United Nations on September 23, President Donald Trump […]

The supplementary economic benefits and perceived acceleration of multipolar trends might appeal to Russia, but the latent military-strategic threats to its interests arguably outweigh them. The “New Rules” telegram channel, which his associated with Sputnik’s former podcast of the same name, posted in late September about plans to revive the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul railway. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian proposed during his trip […]