Understanding the behavior and perspective of the Taliban regarding developments in Syria requires a realistic grasp of their foreign policy approach. Officially, the Taliban government views itself as a national and Afghan movement, and has thus far ...
The future of the projects that connect Central Asia to South Asia by passing through Afghanistan depend on a number of factors whose realization needs creative solutions on the side of the Afghan officials....
After fall of the republic in Afghanistan, the focus has been more on the material and tangible consequences of this event rather than the mental and psychological ones. But the impacts of fall of the ...
Afghanistan's Shias, who make up 12 to 20 percent of the country's population, have always failed to play a significant role in the country's equations. After the rise of ISKP (Islamic State of Khorasan ...
The United States’ strategic approach towards cooperation with the Central Asian countries is a combination of two strategic benefits. It means, while Washington is pursuing the grand strategy of connecting ...
Cabinet officials announced by the Taliban are all members of the group itself and, except for three of them, selected from the Pashtuns. This cabinet can be analyzed from different perspectives. One ...
It is the duty of the both countries of Iran and Afghanistan to preserve the shared wetlands. The entry of human borders into this area has had very serious consequences for both sides. The continuation ...
After years of covert politics or hiding itself behind the United States, Britain has once again returned to the policy of direct intervention in Afghanistan to start a new adventure there and bring about ...
Throughout the history and especially after the conclusion of the Paris Agreement, the importance of joint water resources - especially the Helmand basin - for Iran and Afghanistan has led to the formation ...
The Historical studies show that there are many similarities in the water development processes of Turkey and Afghanistan. At almost a same period of time, rulers came to power in these two countries ...
In order to change its regional and international status, Pakistan has made changes in its domestic and foreign policy that cannot be labeled as hoax. Islamabad has found that adopting a security-oriented ...
According to various considerations, Iran and Afghanistan have no choice but to cooperate in water management in the Helmand watershed. Kamal Khan Dam is now completed and has created the opportunity ...
The Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations, which have seemed to be strategic so far, are changing profoundly. This transformation has been intensified under the influence of the political and ideological rivalries ...
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as the collapse of the bipolar world, the US military invasion of Afghanistan provided a unique opportunity for the White House officials to pursue their ...
In the heat of war and crisis in Afghanistan, a railway between Iran and Afghanistan was inaugurated for the first time by the presidents of the two countries. This railway connects Iran’s Khaf to Afghanistan’s ...
The Taliban has reportedly been able to increase its financial income through drug trafficking, illegal mining and export in the recent years. The group's revenue in the fiscal year 1398 (which ended ...
The development of the international railway network from the Iranian city of Khaf to Afghanistan’s Herat and China’s Kashgar through Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan would facilitate transportation and cultural ...
Alongside its language and ethnic boundaries, Afghan society is now facing a new frontier: the “ideological polarization”. Although this ideological polarization is currently mild and overshadowed by ...
The Russian Federation and Afghanistan inherited an old, complex and unique relationship that has seen many ups and downs. In the recent years, especially after 2014, when the withdrawal of the US troop ...
The new US strategy targets the whole region rather than Afghanistan alone. The designers of this strategy seek to create a new arrangement of the regional actors in a bid to maintain the US hegemony ...
The announcement of Donald Trump's new strategy in Afghanistan received mixed reactions from the Afghan and Pakistani officials. Through a purely security point of view and regardless of other problems ...