Factional rivalries, tribal loyalties, authoritarian rule and hardline policies are testing Afghan regime cohesion

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict between these two neighbors now threatens to explode—with damaging consequences for the wider region.

Beijing’s gamble in Afghanistan – to normalize the Taliban regime, when most other countries have sanctioned it – has come with a heavy cost

(Wakil KOHSAR/AFP/AFP) Taliban authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide shutdown of communications, weeks after they began severing fibre optic connections to prevent "vice". Connectivity was operating at less than one percent of its normal levels ...

Border clashes over the weekend between Afghanistan and Pakistan led to the deaths of dozens of soldiers, the most serious clash between the two countries since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021, and gained the attention of US President Donald Trump.

Afghanistan and Pakistan began peace talks in Doha on October 18 after extending a 48-hour cease-fire. Recent violence included Pakistani air strikes in Afghanistan, killing 10 civilians, and a suicide attack near the Afghan border killing seven Pakistani ...

Afghanistan’s unity government has stalled on pledged reforms two years after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brokered a power-sharing arrangement to stave off violence after a disputed election. Meanwhile, Afghan and U.S. strategy is at sea amid a ...

In the frontierlands of Kunar, Paktika, and North Waziristan, an uneasy equilibrium has emerged between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Both governments accuse each other of harbouring terrorists, yet both quietly rely on them as tools of leverage. The Taliban ...

Canada's military is modeling an insurgency-style response to a hypothetical U.S. invasion for the first time in over one hundred years. The post Canada quietly models Taliban-style response to hypothetical US invasion appeared first on Straight Arrow News.