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• Jalal Jalali discusses health cooperation with head of CDE in Kabul
  May 8, 2026
  Noor Jalal Jalali, Minister of Public Health, met Thursday with Anthony Dutemple, Director General of the Chain of Hope (CDE), to discuss numerous issues around health. Jalali discussed the organization’s strategy,
• Trump’s China Trap
  May 8, 2026
  Why Xi Keeps Winning the Summitry Game In January, after weeks of threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex Canada as the “51st state,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of
• L’avenir des États-Unis : un pays prospère et pacifique, ou un empire en faillite et violent ?
  May 8, 2026
  Les États-Unis se trouvent à un tournant où deux choix s’offrent à eux. Ils peuvent soit opérer une transition pour passer du statut d’Hégémon mondial à celui d’un pays prospère et pacifique collaborant
• Pakistan army chief warns of expanded operations against ‘militants in Afghanistan’
  May 8, 2026
  Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, warned that military operations targeting militant infrastructure and safe havens inside Afghanistan would intensify, as relations between Islamabad and the Taliban continue to
• China Looks To Ease Iran Into Resolution of War With U.S.
  May 8, 2026
  China is looking to engineer an off-ramp to end the current U.S.-Iran conflict without forcing Tehran to fold. On May 6, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met in Beijing with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to
• The Fatemiyoun Brigade – Iran’s Instrument Of Foreign Policy And The Afghan Taliban’s Hope For Iranian…
  May 6, 2026
  Introduction In recent decades, the nature of regional conflicts has shifted from direct warfare to proxy conflicts, with states increasingly pursuing their strategic objectives through the use of non-state armed
• Outlooks on Open-Source Innovation at the India AI Impact Summit 2026
  May 6, 2026
  Drawing on ten public discussions from the India AI Impact Summit 2026, this article highlights key outlooks on open source in AI that are likely to shape policy and governance conversations going forward. At the
• South Asia Intelligence
  May 6, 2026
  Mizoram: Reinforcing Peace The developments of April 2026 mark a decisive turning point in Mizoram’s internal security landscape, with the surrender of 43 cadres of the Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic
• Could the Iran War Push Japan to Restore Russian Oil Imports?
  May 6, 2026
  Tokyo would have to surmount a lot of obstacles—not least Western sanctions—if it wanted to return Russian oil imports to even modest pre-2022 volumes. About once a year, Japan’s foreign policy establishment
• Afghan Daily Examines Geopolitical Shift In Middle East: ‘One Of The Most Prominent Features Of This…
  May 6, 2026
  On April 22, 2026, the Afghan media outlet Hasht-e-Subh published a Dari-language article, examining the current situation in the Middle East and arguing that the region is moving away from the post-Cold War order led