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• China & Taiwan Update, July 17, 2026
  July 21, 2026
  Japan is developing its own central intelligence agency for the first time since World War II. These efforts underscore the failure of the PRC’s pressure campaign to divide Japan and its security partners and dissuade
• Lavrov Warned That Western Arms & Ammo Are Being Sent From Ukraine To ISIS-K In Afghanistan
  July 21, 2026
  It’s almost certainly the case that they’re being sent through Pakistan. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned in mid-July in his address to participants of a regional meeting on stopping the flow of weapons
• Le système satellitaire chinois Beidou redéfinit la guerre entre Téhéran & Washington
  July 21, 2026
  Permettez-moi de la résumer. Au cours de la guerre de 12 jours en juin 2025, les missiles et drones iraniens ont peiné face à la guerre électronique élaborée menée par Israël et les États-Unis. Le brouillage et
• District in Badakhshan briefly falls to anti-Taliban group
  July 20, 2026
  An anti-Taliban group briefly seized control of Yaftal-e-Paeen district in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province early Friday before withdrawing several hours later, local sources told Amu TV. Two local
• Le dilemme chinois de l’Europe : pourquoi l’UE ne parvient toujours pas à définir la Chine
  July 18, 2026
  L’Union européenne persiste à qualifier la Chine de partenaire, de concurrent et de rival systémique—souvent au sein des mêmes cadres politiques. Cette ambiguïté conceptuelle chronique a engendré une approche
• Who Decides Childhood in Pakistan: Parliament, Shariah, or the Courts?
  July 18, 2026
  Who has the constitutional authority to decide when childhood ends in Pakistan? That question lies at the heart of one of the country’s most significant constitutional challenges, now before the Federal Shariat
• Taliban ministers step up visits to India as ties with Pakistan fray
  July 16, 2026
  Four Taliban cabinet ministers have visited India over the past nine months, highlighting growing engagement between New Delhi and the Taliban as their relations with neighboring Pakistan remain strained. The latest
• Iran says ties with Taliban will continue regardless of recognition
  July 16, 2026
  Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it will continue expanding relations with the Taliban regardless of whether Tehran formally recognizes their rule, describing recognition as a separate political and legal process. The
• SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW Volume 25 No. 4
  July 16, 2026
  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Quadcopter Proliferation On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter
• Why oil was never in danger of reaching $200 a barrel
  July 14, 2026
  Forecasts that oil could reach $200 a barrel spread rapidly at the start of the US-Iran war and experts pondered whether the Strait of Hormuz could remain closed for a prolonged period. But these dire predictions never