Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi says not a single foreign military personnel is present anywhere in Afghanistan and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) does not want ...

New research reveals how brotherhood, marriage, and shared smuggling routes help the Taliban maintain deep ties with Al-Qaeda ...

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

In the wake of the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, the question of military strength in the Middle East has been at ...

Central Asian nations are increasingly engaging with Afghanistan through economic cooperation, trade, and infrastructure ...

JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow saw significant trade and economic opportunities, especially in energy, transport, agriculture, and infrastructure ...

National security depends on citizens’ trust in our armed forces. We lose that if we turn soldiers into law-enforcement ...

A communist government had taken power in April 1978 and was coming apart at the seams. The Soviet Union actually considered Afghan communist leader Hafizullah Amin an unhinged, unpredictable ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen ...

Dr. Vassily Klimentov of the University of Zurich explains how the notes of Soviet ambassador, Nikolay Egorychev, helped provide the inspiration for his new book, A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the ...