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Then-State Sen. Aisha Wahab speaks to the crowd gathered during the Ramadan Iftar on April 10, 2023, at the state Capitol in downtown Sacramento, California
Middle East

By shunning the Taliban, the world is hurting normal Afghans

Rep. Aisha Wahab is right: International isolation has hurt the people while doing little to hinder the regime

US Navy Arabian Sea
Military Industrial Complex

US can huff & puff, but without a political fix Iran won't come down

Military force — and even economic pressure — without clearly defined outcomes has been the downfall of US war policy for decades

Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi, Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi, and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan Mohammad Ishaq Dar
Asia-Pacific

When US left Afghanistan, China moved in. So how's it going?

Five years on, Beijing's relations with the Taliban are a study in pragmatism and patience, but not exactly as expected

Is Pakistan using US weapons to kill civilians in Afghanistan?
Middle East

Is Pakistan using US weapons to kill civilians in Afghanistan?

Islamabad doesn't get to play mediator in one conflict while blasting away at rehab centers and punishing innocent villagers in another.

What Pakistan's 'open war' on Taliban in Afghanistan really means
QiOSK

What Pakistan's 'open war' on Taliban in Afghanistan really means

They hit Kabul and Kandahar hard, but believes it can manage escalation to achieve its goals

Zbigniew Brzezinski Camp David Summit
Media

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Foreign policy prophet or blind man?

Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s grand strategist plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today