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How Central Asia is 'containing' Afghanistan

After abandoning hope of influencing the Taliban, Central Asian nations have sought to insulate themselves from Afghanistan’s ...
The Trump administration will always couch even its most reasonable decisions in the most dramatic terms possible, and so it ...
Pakistan enters 2026 with surprisingly warmer ties to the United States – a sharp turn from the chill of recent years. In a ...
Habibullah set off from his home in western Afghanistan determined to find work in Iran, only for the 15-year-old to freeze ...
Afghanistan’s trade remained resilient in 2025 despite repeated closures of key border crossings with Pakistan, commerce ministry data showed, as exporters and importers increasingly relied on ...
Iranian authorities have unleashed a deadly crackdown on protesters across the country since December 28, 2025, marked by ...