Expectations were high on both sides of the Atlantic when Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election that transatlantic comity and cooperation would be restored, and that Donald Trump’s abrasive, destructive diplomacy soon would be merely a painful memory. Biden’s...
It is not important that mainstream political scientists keep underestimating contemporary Turkey and its tough president Recep Tayyip Erdogan: we are facing a great power reborn. The facts prove it. Like the mythical phoenix, this centuries-old imperiality-oriented power managed to...
Taliban celebrated ‘Independence Day’ as the last troop of the US military forces left Afghanistan. But after the Taliban takeover, the average Afghan population faces mounting challenges ahead. Afghanistan now is experiencing a collapse of administration and economy, rising food...
The world has been patiently waiting for an official government formation in Afghanistan. While acting president Amrullah Saleh and leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, Ahmad Massoud are battling Taliban forces in Panjshir valley, nothing explains the incomprehensible...
The spectacular collapse of the Afghan civilian government has caught everyone by surprise. The U.S.-led Western nations’ security and political assistance quickly unravelled as the Taliban made rapid gains across the country, standing on the doors of capital Kabul in...
As the U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban is inching towards key cities across the country, staking its claim to power. However, even as it does so, the group has unleashed a reign of terror in some of...
In December 2019, Punjab police busted an international gang of drug smugglers operating from Canada, Punjab and Sydney. The gang comprised of nine members, five Indians and four foreigners. They were arrested from different parts of North India, including Punjab,...
The European parliament has signalled fierce opposition to taking forward a market access treaty with China by calling it frozen, in a sign of mounting tensions between the two. Maps voted by an overwhelming majority on Thursday to stop the...
On June 18 Iranians are due to choose their next president after four years under Hassan Rouhani, US sanctions and nationwide protests. What to expect from the man who will lead the power? In the government structure the President of...
What happened when a plane that was travelling from Athens to Vilnius made an abrupt change of course over Belarus to arrest one of its passenger? That the European Union bars Belarusian airlines from flying over or landing in all...