Trump Deploys Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ‘Night Stalkers’ to the Caribbean for the Siege of Venezuela

U.S. Soldiers with the 10th Special Forces Group travel over the Gulf of America. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez/Wiki Media) Military and intelligence assets deployed for the War on Cartels. Along with the largest military...

15 Killed In New Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Clash; Islamabad Provoked By Muttaqi’s Visit To India? OP-ED

By Imran Khurshid, PhD Fifteen people were killed and dozens wounded in fresh clashes on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghan officials told AFP on Wednesday. Clashes broke out overnight in the southern Afghan district of Spin...

Capital Cities and Foreign Legal Research

Recently, I was tasked with a particularly complicated legal research question which involved one of my favorite topics: capital cities. The information and analysis we needed was only available to us once we managed to see the pieces through the...

Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to temporary ceasefire after airstrike in Kandahar

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Aurelien – Learning From The Defeat?…What is military technology actually for?

Before the War started, most people were vaguely aware of them: they would point excitedly to the sky, perhaps. When the fighting started they were simple, delicate machines with a short range, and capable of little more than reconnaissance roles,...

Hero Afghan commando sent back to Taliban after being failed by Britain

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What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and Moral Growth

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, offering to lease their rights, had incorrect...

Afghanistan-Pakistan Escalating Tensions: Cross-Border Clashes, Air Strikes, and Regional Implications

Executive Summary This report assesses the recent escalation of hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan, marked by deadly border clashes and alleged Pakistani air strikes near Kabul. It examines the causes, implications, and regional...

Chinese suspect India’s role in Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict

Chinese analysts are increasingly framing Pakistan’s ongoing confrontation with Afghanistan not merely as a bilateral conflict but as part of a wider regional dynamic involving India. As one Chinese commentator implied, the real explanation may...

‘New Normal’: Is Pakistan trying to set new red lines with Afghan Taliban?

Islamabad, Pakistan – When Pakistan’s foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, visited Kabul in April and met his Afghan Taliban counterpart, Amir Khan Muttaqi, analysts viewed the occasion as marking a reset of relations amid the increasing hostilities...

Can A Muslim Hegemon Also Find Its Space In A Multipolar World?

While attending the launch of an important new book on world order, my mind inevitably drifted to relating the subject to my own area of interest—the Muslim world. Here was an area of the globe with a population of almost two billion people, yet...

Taliban’s New Internet Restrictions Keep Afghanistan Out of the Global Spotlight

Asia-Pacific, Gender, Headlines, Human Rights, TerraViva United Nations Human Rights The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons...

Army adopts cutting-edge tech to counter terrorism, minimise casualties

ISLAMABAD: In a significant shift in counter-terrorism strategy, the Pakistan Army is increasingly adopting advanced technologies against militant threats while minimising risks to soldiers, particularly in high-risk regions like Balochistan and...

Afghan forces’ unprovoked firing violation of UN Charter, Doha Accord: Experts

PESHAWAR - The recent unprovoked cross-border firing by Afghan forces on multiple Pakistani checkposts has sparked serious concerns among foreign relations and defense experts, who have termed it a blatant violation of the United Nations (UN)...

Afghan forces unprovoked firing violation of UN Charter: Experts

PESHAWAR - The recent unprovoked cross-border firing by Afghan forces on multiple Pakistani checkposts has sparked serious concerns among foreign relations and defense experts, who have termed it a blatant violation of the United Nations (UN)...

VPN usage up 35,000% in Afghanistan as authorities restrict access to social media – here's what we know

Social media restrictions imposed in Afghanistan on October 7 have led many to turn to VPNs Proton VPN recorded spikes in usage of +35,000% above baseline The social media ban follows a 48-hour complete internet shutdown on September 29, 2025...

Afghanistan says it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations

Afghanistan said Sunday it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace. Earlier in the week, Afghan authorities accused Pakistan of bombing its...

Foreign minister in India, Afghanistan says 'killed 58 Pakistani soldiers': Why they are fighting

Pakistan Afghanistan Conflict: Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Mutaqqi, who is on a visit to India, said on Sunday (October 12) that Kabul wanted peace with Pakistan, but if that country did not cooperate, they had “other means” at their...

Afghanistan has other means if peaceful efforts with Pakistan do not succeed: Muttaqi

New Delhi: Afghanistan wants to resolve border clashes with Pakistan through dialogue but has recourse to “other means” if peaceful efforts do not succeed, Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Sunday. Afghanistan foreign minister...

Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes: What we know so far 

Heavy fighting has broken out between Pakistani and Afghan forces at multiple locations on their border, and the rival sides claim to have captured and destroyed border posts in one of the worst border clashes in recent years. The Taliban...