While China has repeatedly asked the US government to stop selling weapons and military equipment to Taiwan, the US Department of Defense brazenly announced that it will provide Taiwan with new weapons.

Sayed Aqeel Sajadi/ Martyr Sayed Ali Akbar Misbah, the son of Sayed Mirza, was born in the spring of 1336 AH in a pious and religious family in Abkhaneh village of Chaharkunt district of Balkh province. After spending his childhood in the loving lap of his parents, he learned to read and write from his father, who was a teacher in the mentioned area....

Habibullah Danishyar / Recently, there are growing signs that the West's alliance over the war in Ukraine may be broken, as Western leaders increasingly face popular dissatisfaction with rampant inflation and declining living standards.

A veteran general of the Israeli army, while pointing to the weaknesses of the Israeli army, stressed: "If this situation does not change, we will not win future wars."

Russian news agencies report that the head of the embassy of the Islamic Emirate in Moscow will represent Afghanistan at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. The Russian Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, described the move as a step towards normalizing relations with the Islamic Emirate.

Low case count raises questions over efficiency and intent of Afghan government

Two decades after its invasion of Afghanistan, the United States has come to the inevitable conclusion that it must end its military intervention there.

Predicting the imminent downfall of the Islamic Republic has been a staple among American pundits since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran 41 years ago.  Amazingly, despite incessant attempts at regime change by the US and its cohorts, Iran has survived and, in some ways, managed to flourish. Yet very few in the West have acknowledged ...

On January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the “coronavirus outbreak (to be) a public health emergency of international concern.”

The US, pushed into a corner by Iraqi calls to expel the US occupying forces from their country, is reportedly seeking to split Iraq into three separate sectarian regions in order to maintain its troop presence in the region.

Efforts to secure a durable political settlement to the Afghanistan war coincide and conflict with an uncertain political transition in the country.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is approaching its forty-first anniversary celebration of the victory of its revolution that freed Iranians from the oppressive yoke of the US-imposed dictator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.  Yet recent events such as the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and the downing of a Ukrainian International Airlines ...

Major General Qassem Soleimani, whose assassination by the US was confirmed earlier on Friday, had played a major role in defending Iran against its enemies and assisting regional countries fight foreign occupation and terrorism.

“Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable.”

Despite ongoing peace negotiations between the United States and the Taliban, the bloody conflict in Afghanistan continues to take a heavy toll on the country’s people. The recent suicide bombing by the Khorasan branch of the ISIS (IS-K) at a wedding in Kabul, which killed more than 60 and injured close to 200, is a stark reminder of Afghanistan’s ...

Washington has finally come to terms with the Afghan Taliban and its Pakistani backers for the future of US military engagement in Afghanistan. A US-Taliban peace deal is expected to be concluded soon. According to US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington is now moving “closer to intra-Afghan negotiations that will ...

The Trump administration's emerging deal with the Taliban has the potential to bring greater stability to Afghanistan, after an 18-year inconclusive war in that country.

Once upon a time, there was a brutal and reckless dictator of an oil-rich Arab country who, despite his well-documented excesses, was stroked and supported by the United States and other Western governments. His crimes were terrible, went the rationale, but he was modernizing his country and he was holding the line against … jihadism and Iran. Anyway,...

Using U.S. leverage to craft an Afghan settlement demands incredible deftness in both Washington and Kabul. More, certainly, than either administration has yet displayed.

Some Taliban fighters hid inside a sewage tanker truck, hoping the smelly interior would prevent a close inspection — as it did. They rode it into the most important military base in Afghanistan and then hid in an empty warehouse.