Ghulam Reza Sadat: Joe Biden has traveled to Israel and Saudi Arabia for the first time since his presidency. According to experts, the trip was influenced by the Ukraine war and the global energy crisis, and most importantly, Biden's reneging on his promise to punish Bin Salman for his involvement in the murder of Jamal Khashogchi.
Azar Bathori: Western countries' sanctions hit European countries the most. The inflation rate in these countries reached its maximum level, which is the first time in European countries that such a situation is seen in their history.
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.
While the country's economy is in crisis and international organizations have repeatedly warned about it, the Red Cross has expressed concern about the current situation and has asked for 80 million francs of emergency aid to help Afghanistan.
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.
The Egyptian criminal court sentenced three members of the Egyptian Ikhwanul Muslimin to death and 20 members of the group to life in prison after being convicted in 18 cases.
The 11 September launch of intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha is yet to translate into formal dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The embattled Afghan stakeholders are still labouring over modalities of talks before they can get into the nitty-gritty of the future political map and things are unlikely to get much easie
This week, Australian media reported on new war crimes allegedly committed by Australia’s Special Air Services (SAS) troops in Afghanistan, including the mass murder of unarmed civilians and planting weapons on the bodies of civilians to cover up unlawful killings.
The halting process of implementation of the US-Taliban Peace Agreement, that was signed at Doha on February 29 this year, brings out three distinct realities of the Afghan situation as seen from an Indian perspective. First, the long drawn exercise of Zilmay Khalizad, US interlocutor, who managed finally to engage a frontline leader of the illusive ...
The Afghan peace process is once again under threat, though this time it's not because of the Taliban, the Kabul government, or the U.S., but COVID-19. The consequences of this virus spreading into the impoverished and war-torn country from Iran run the risk of reversing all of the recent progress that's been achieved since the beginning of the year....
Pakistan's southwest port of Gwadar now plays a new role to facilitate transit trade for Afghanistan, a landlocked country in the region, by providing a most economical trade route for the war-torn nation after the first ship of Afghan transit trade arrived at the port recently.
Recently, several US soldiers pleaded guilty to stealing money earmarked for Afghanistan reconstruction, but it’s not the first time Americans have been caught stealing from other countries’ pockets.
China’s shared border with Afghanistan through the Wakhan Valley and its model of non-intervention are advantages it can exploit to cement its foothold
Despite of 19 years US and allies strong presence, unfortunately still the Afghan Air Forces have not achieved self-sufficiency. In its recent report, SIGAR has said that the US aids to AAF have decreased.
In the early 2000s, the war in Afghanistan was largely fought in the country’s rural areas. As the war dragged on, entrepreneurs established social media companies that now drive modern politics. The world evolved into the present social media-dominated age; so did the Afghan war.
A new chapter was opened in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, when the US warplanes began launching heavy strikes against the Taliban in different parts of Afghanistan.