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The number of rape cases on record has fallen through the years. Either the police are reluctant to register FIRs, or survivors are losing faith in...
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman had believed conference-room babble on a multipolar world, imagining the kingdom’s wealth would compel the...
As Donald Trump ended his confrontation over Greenland, European leaders were remembering the enormous risks taken as the Cold War began to descend on...
The Houthis are the latest force seeking to dominate Yemen. Before them came Imams, Arab nationalists, Communists, jihadists and political...
The India-China border conflict has never been about the few dozen kilometres of desolate earth and ice that separates their claim lines.
Each pile of bones in Sri Lanka is evidence of what happens when politics disintegrates under the weight of ethnic or religious chauvinism, and...
Five years after Kabul fell to the Islamic Emirate, world leaders are quietly marketing their acceptance of this regime as realism.
From MEDO to CENTO to Mecca agreement, military alliances have repeatedly been offered as answers to fundamentally political problems.
Manmohan Singh called it our biggest threat 20 years ago. The state won the war, but history shows Left insurgencies don't stay dead for long.
What began as an assertion of citizenship has become the latest chapter in a struggle that stretches back to the Poonch rebellion of 1947.
A long-overdue debate has begun on when it is legitimate for law enforcement to use force against protesters, and what weapons ought to be permitted.
Like Kazakhstan or Turkmenistan, Russia’s role is simply to feed the dragon. Low energy prices help Beijing, not Moscow.
The growing reluctance of America to risk fortune and blood to defend distant allies could end up making wars not only more likely, but unimaginably...
For Trump, the killing of IS second-in-command, al-Minuki, is an ad for the new counter-terrorism doctrine. But America needs to ask itself why taking...
Led by Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, and with Pakistan and Egypt as its providers of hard military power, the group seeks to push back against Iran’s...
The world’s attention is fixed on the Persian Gulf, but the crisis in Mali demands urgent attention.
Britain’s failure to secure the oil of Arabia in the 1950s was no misjudgement. The sun was setting on the Empire, and a new hegemon had emerged. Is...
Before Donald Trump, Saddam Hussein was seduced by the promise of an easy victory. In the aftermath of the bloody war, Iran ended up with profound...
The Pakistani garrison at Tabuk began blossoming—not to defend any particular border, but to protect the House of Saud from destruction.
Learning from the Second World War, the world seemed to move toward making war subject to law and reason. These ends were, however, almost immediately...
As critics accuse PM Modi of surrendering national sovereignty and India’s moral compass over Iran crisis, declassified documents show the dilemmas...
Weak governance, corruption and poverty continue to define tribal life in India. The introduction of industrial and mining projects has benefited...
The kidnapping—followed by the killing of four Indian Air Force officers soon after, and the executions of Intelligence Bureau personnel—made the...
Part of a CIA-trained zero unit, Rahmanullah Lakanwal was evacuated to the US before the fall of Kabul in 2021. But his long journey failed to wash...
Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce...
Cutting trade ties with Pakistan is easier said than done: the neighbouring country is Afghanistan’s largest single trading partner, taking in 45...
Lack of movement on building a genuine democratic culture in Kashmir after 2019 is helping the region’s jihadists.
There’s little doubt that Saudi Arabia contributed to its own problems, driven by leadership hubris and poor advice. The Line is a case in point.
Fourteen million refugees, and 25 million facing acute hunger, should be reason enough for the world to dismantle the dystopia in Sudan — even if...
Pakistan massively enhanced the funding for Islamists in Afghanistan, hoping to bury ethnic nationalism. That strategy has now backfired...
The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in...
Like drug wars in the past, Trump’s efforts are likely to deepen the chaos in Central America—exposing the US to greater danger.
Less than an hour earlier, William Putscher had been lunching on a hot dog by the poolside, in the congenial environment of the American Embassy’s...
Taliban factions nurture the TTP as both an ideological ally and because Emir Hibatullah Akhundzada’s regime views the borderlands as Afghan, not...
The rare-earth crisis shows how misplaced government policies and corporate greed can collude to create a strategic crisis.
When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a...
Even though the Western media sometimes gives the impression that young Saudis overwhelmingly back Prince Salman’s efforts, some data suggest there...
There’s little doubt that the unravelling of English politics is taking place at a speed few anticipated. Even though figures show net immigration...
Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.
As the world order threatens to buckle under new strains, peacemaking is becoming an ever more dangerous business.
India-US intelligence ties flourished even in the shadow of the Cold War, as New Delhi resolutely proclaimed its commitment to non-alignment.
The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.
The screwworm has breached the biological wall established in Panama over decades. The pest is relentlessly marching northwards—helped by Trump’s...
Indian political leaders will have to prepare their public for the prospect of concessions India never really held—just as Chinese leaders must...
Trump had promised to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in 2019. The plan disappeared into the sands.
India’s policy on Myanmar has been to deal with its Generals and maintain a distance from the country’s insurgent groups and political struggles....
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it...
Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s...
Kashmir has never been, in any sense of the world, allowed to be a normal state, with normal politicians and normal citizens.
Mob violence, Islamist rise, and political collapse haunt Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Can April 2026 elections restore order?
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