Key Takeaways: On 10 August the U.S., Armenia, and Azerbaijan marked one year after the White House summit and restated work on TRIPP—a corridor from Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan across Armenia. The route is not built. Armenia’s Constitutional Court hears the U.S. framework on 15 September; a new Armenian constitution and a 2027 referendum are also tied to Baku’s peace terms. […]

Key Takeaways: On September 8, 2026, Khurshid Pandrani Raisani was shot dead by Islamic State Pakistan Province (ISPP) terrorists in the Kank Ziarat area of Mastung District in Balochistan. While claiming responsibility for the attack, ISPP alleged that Raisani was an intelligence informant for Security Forces (SFs). On April 12, 2026, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Shia Hazara vegetable vendors […]

Key Takeaways: The South China Sea issue, often seen as a major flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific region because of contesting claims by some countries to this global common, emerged as a hot topic of discussion at the Seoul Defence Dialogue 2026 held on 7-9 September. Philippines which has a running spat with China and took the matter to the International […]

By not adopting resolute approaches, the United States and partners have allowed bad actors to bring the world closer to global conflict. Xi is apparently trying to “encircle the cities from the countryside.” Today, the Chinese leader considers places like Ukraine to be countryside and America the most important city. Xi has been busy disrupting the world. “Great chaos under […]

Accepter d’envoyer leurs forces de maintien de la paix, notamment dans la partie du Donbass d’où l’Ukraine pourrait se retirer et, au minimum, sur le reste de la ligne de front, pourrait être l’étincelle nécessaire pour faire avancer le processus de paix actuellement au point mort et mettre enfin le conflit sur la voie d’un règlement global. Le porte-parole du […]

Taliban forces detained the head and several members of a commission representing Afghanistan’s Shiite community after surrounding its office in Kabul, sources within the commission and Shiite representatives told Amu TV. The sources said personnel from the Taliban’s Justice Ministry surrounded the Shiite Commission’s office on Sunday before entering the building and detaining several people. Those detained were taken to […]

Key Takeaways: (Albawaba) — A resistance group belonging to the internationally recognized government in Yemen confirmed the killing of 500 soldiers in fighting on the western coast between August 9 and September 10. The Yemeni resistance announced in a statement on Sunday that 500 were killed and 1,500 were wounded among the group’s forces in the battles with the Iranian-backed […]

Key Takeaways: In May, an explosion at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan was followed by an intense firefight in which 21 people were killed. It was just one in a series of violent incidents in which militants operating out of Afghanistan, with support from Al-Qaeda, have launched attacks on targets in neighboring Pakistan. A quarter-century ago, the United States […]

Since the Taliban reclaimed power five years ago, Russia has been the only country to formally recognise it as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. When Moscow made that decision in July 2025, Russia appeared to be taking a calculated gamble on post-US Afghanistan. The move formalised a relationship that had already expanded steadily in the preceding years, opening greater space for diplomatic, […]

Pakistan’s UN representative has expressed deep concern over what he called growing terrorist activity from Afghan territory, saying more than 4,700 Pakistanis have been killed in such attacks over the past three years. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s representative to the United Nations, told a Security Council meeting on Friday, 11 September, marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks […]