By Fatima Baloch [email protected] The religious insurgent group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) emerged in 2007 amid ...

TTP splinter group, Jamaat ul Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the November 11 suicide attack in Islamabad. And APS-style catastrophe by the same TTP hosted by 'brotherly Afghan Talibs', the 21st ...

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 - ...

Afghanistan’s frontier remains the stage for regional ambitions from the “Great Game” to modern proxy wars. The ghosts of the past once again shake the region’s peace ...

Why would Tajikistan invite China to build a paramilitary facility while asking India to wrap up a base it had been operating ...

Summary It will be an overestimation of Pakistan’s leverage to believe that Afghanistan, the ‘graveyard of empires’, one that defeated superpowers, will plainly succumb to Pakistan’s whims. Pakistan ...

Geography and a history of proxy politics have made Afghanistan an arena for others’ contests, undermining its stability.

Contrary to Pakistan’s hopes that Taliban 2.0 would prove to be a friendly government, they have turned out to be very unfriendly, indeed hostile. Pakistan-Afghanistan relations have ...

When America breaks promises, “it makes us less safe,” U.S. Rep. Jason Crow says about arrest of Afghan soldier who helped ...

Critical minerals are abundant, but without political continuity and legitimate governance, they remain out of reach.

The international community must not let the Sudanese civil war lead to the chaos that turned Afghanistan into a base for global jihad.