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• Throwing Water on Turkey’s Warming Ties with China
  February 16, 2026
  Concerns about the Uyghur file, investment risks, and other issues are still constraining the relationship to a certain extent, but fortifying those restraints will require Washington to exert further leverage on
• Indian Seizure of Iranian “Shadow Fleet” Creates Opening for U.S.-Led Sanctions Enforcement Coalition
  February 16, 2026
  The Trump administration is reportedly considering whether to seize additional tankers carrying sanctioned Iranian oil. This comes on the heels of the Indian Coast Guard’s first-ever seizure of “shadow fleet”
• Al-Qaida Indian Subcontinent Leaders Based In Kabul, Says UN Report
  February 16, 2026
  Anew United Nations sanctions monitoring report says the Taliban are supporting the activities of militant groups, including al-Qaida, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, inside
• Taliban appoint sanctioned commander Mohammad Fazel as transport minister
  February 16, 2026
  Mohammad Fazel Mazloom, a former Taliban deputy defence minister who is under U.N. sanctions, has been appointed minister of transport and civil aviation in a cabinet reshuffle ordered by the Taliban’s supreme leader,
• The geopolitics of Balochistan’s hybrid insurgency
  February 16, 2026
  Recently, Pakistan was rocked by the Baloch Liberation Army’s “Herof Phase 2” offensive, a coordinated assault across nine districts that combined urban raids, rural guerrilla tactics, suicide missions, and
• Taliban defense minister urges members to ‘forget the past’
  February 16, 2026
  The Taliban’s defense minister on Sunday urged members to “forget the past” and avoid settling old scores, warning that revenge and factional rivalries could once again plunge the country into internal conflict.
• Exclusive: Taliban begin enforcing new penal code
  February 16, 2026
  The Taliban have begun enforcing their newly approved penal code, sentencing a man in western Afghanistan to one year in prison and 39 lashes for allegedly insulting their supreme leader, according to three local and
• China & Taiwan Update, February 13, 2026
  February 16, 2026
  Toplines The PLA’s newest amphibious assault vessel, the Type 076 landing helicopter dock (LHD) Sichuan, could be equipped with as many as six GJ-21 naval stealth drones. The Type 076 will likely use the GJ-21 to
• Taliban issue bachelor’s degrees to 325 madrassa graduates, including from Pakistan
  February 16, 2026
  The Taliban-run higher education ministry has begun issuing bachelor’s degrees to 325 madrassa graduates, including alumni of religious schools in Pakistan, according to a ministry statement and an official list. The
• Afghanistan’s security is security of region and world: Haqqani
  February 16, 2026
  Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani, Minister of Interior Affairs, says the officials of the Islamic Emirate have repeatedly emphasized that the security of Afghanistan is the security of the region and the world. Speaking at