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Muhammad MuradThe Diplomat |
The Taliban have high hopes for engaging with the Trump administration, which has its own wishlist from Afghanistan's de facto government.
What is China up to with its diplomatic outreach to U.S. allies Japan and the EU before Trump’s inauguration?
Is Pakistan on the verge of losing its erstwhile friend, the Afghan Taliban, to its arch-rival India?
On December 24, Pakistani forces launched air strikes in Paktika, the eastern province of Afghanistan bordering Pakistan’s tribal district of...
On December 19, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor Dr. Muhammad Yunus held bilateral talks on the sidelines...
A recent suicide attack killed Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani , the minister of refugees and repatriation in the Taliban regime in Kabul. The Taliban...
On December 2, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made a two-day visit to hold a strategic dialogue with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi....
U.S. President Joe Biden finally fulfilled his promise of visiting Africa almost two years after the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December...
The election of Donald Trump will pose new challenges for the fragile rapprochement between China and Australia.
Trump's first administration signed a deal with the Taliban. With the group now in de facto control of the country, how will Trump 2.0 approach...
For both geopolitical and geoeconomic reasons, Germany has a growing interest in India.
Despite tough choices and sanctions, there is noticeably increased engagement between Islamabad and Moscow.
The chaos of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan has become politicized. But the blame stretches back decades, through both Republican and Democratic...
Despite criticism and skepticism, China seems to be Africa’s last hope, if not its best bet.
With the new virtue and vice law, the Taliban are on track to take the country back to the norms of their late 1990s rule.
The U.S. and the global community have repeatedly failed to recognize that engaging with the Taliban alone will not bear fruitful results.