Zarghuna Safai*, a 20-year-old resident of Kabul, was a second-semester student at a local medical institute when the Taliban barred women and girls from studying in medical training centres across ...

Nearly four years after the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, numerous countries have diplomatically engaged with the Islamic Emirate, accepting its rule as a political reality. Yet, no government had ...

A survey of China’s periphery demonstrates the authoritarian’s need to isolate itself cognitively through the Great Firewall, ...

Nearly four years after the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan, Moscow has formally recognized the Taliban regime as the ...

The world’s population is expected to start shrinking this century. Political demographer Jennifer Sciubba says that’s no ...

At this early stage, prioritization is only one of several approaches the Trump administration may pursue. But for now, signs ...

In a forceful address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Tianjin, ...

Though not a mutual defense alliance, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) remains the most important multilateral security structure in Central Asia that includes both Russia and China.

President Donald Trump visited the Middle East in May but devoted little attention to one of the region’s most pervasive challenges: religious intolerance and persecution. Virtually every country, ...

Political and security hurdles, particularly TTP-related violence, continue to prevent the two countries from realizing the ...

President Trump’s threat to destroy Russia’s international oil market by Labor Day comes as President Putin pulls up the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration says it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops sent to Los Angeles ...