International law exists to restrain power, not to accommodate it. Its credibility is tested not when states comply out of…
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Afghanistan today projects the outward symbols of sovereignty while lacking its substance. Flags fly, decrees are issued, and authority is…
For decades, the 2,640-kilometer stretch of the Durand Line was treated as a “no man’s land,” a historical relic where…
For much of the past three years, the Taliban have sustained the claim that Afghanistan’s war is over. The fall…
The mistreatment of resistance fighters’ bodies in Baghlan is not an isolated act of cruelty. It is a political signal.…
The reported willingness of the Taliban to barter Bagram Airbase for continued dollar inflows decisively shatters the carefully cultivated illusion…
The global order that once promised security through alignment is quietly collapsing. In its place has emerged a harsher reality…
The persistent tendency to treat the Islamic State Khorasan Province as a distinct and emergent threat separate from the Tehrik-e-Taliban…
The linkage between undocumented migration and domestic security is not a matter of prejudice or scapegoating, but of administrative visibility.…
What is unfolding in Takhar Province is not an insurgency in the conventional sense. It is territorial enforcement. The Tehreek-e-Taliban…