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A recent incident involving popular Indian travel vlogger Arunima, known online as “Backpacker Arunima,” has brought international attention back to the severe regulatory barriers and unpredictable security environment for solo…
Reports have confirmed that roughly half of the estimated one million weapons the Taliban inherited in 2021 are now lost, sold, or smuggled — with a documented trail reaching militant…
The ongoing circumstances illustrate the core danger of Afghanistan’s ungoverned frontier space: it is not just militant groups with their own agendas that can exploit it, but, external state rivals…
Afghanistan’s national cricket team opens its three-match Twenty20 International series against India at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi today (Sunday). The opening fixture marks the beginning of a…
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP)—the Afghanistan-based affiliate of the broader extremist movement—has undergone a significant transformation. While conventional metrics show the group has reduced its physical territory and visible infrastructure…
How Afghan girls barred from school by the Taliban are being defrauded by fake online programs — and blamed by officials for trying to study at all By Dr Muhammad…
Pakistan’s ambitions to open new overland trade routes through Afghanistan into Central Asia and Iran have quietly stalled, according to Islamabad’s ambassador to Russia — who says the reason is…
By Dr Muhammad Shahid Every September, as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, intelligence analysts brace for a predictable ritual: As-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s media production arm, releases something timed to remind the…
Afghanistan’s United Front leader, Gen Sami Sadat, has called on the US and the international community not to forget Afghanistan, warning that the security situation in the country remains a…
By Dr Muhammad Shahid Every September, the world pauses to remember the smoke over Manhattan, the grief that gripped American cities, the moment the twenty-first century seemed to begin in…