3 Jul 2025
Op-ed
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The completion and operation of the Bakhshabad Dam in Afghanistan threatens human security in the water sector. The countries that have decided to build the dam for Afghanistan will undoubtedly incur costs for the country. Iran and Afghanistan must reach ...
It seems that the Taliban’s rule is the inevitable fate of Afghanistan. Although this government, as in the past, has adopted the medieval methods, and shows incompatibility with the legal principles ...
27 Oct 2021 - 21:45
When ISIS announced the emergence of ISKP (ISIS–K) in Afghanistan, the then Afghan government categorically denied the ISKP' presence in the country for a year, but after the revelation of ISKP activities ...
21 Oct 2021 - 12:27
If the Taliban had taken over Kabul after a heavy war, they would now have been overwhelmed with excitement, but it did not happen. The Taliban suddenly found themselves in a situation that they were ...
13 Sep 2021 - 13:55
The US president ended the country’s 20-year war in Afghanistan by announcing an unconditional withdrawal. However, since then the war in Afghanistan has entered a new phase because the Taliban know that ...
27 Jul 2021 - 00:19
After its second rise in 2005, the Taliban gradually began to capture territory and form a shadow government. The group also captured some remote areas and established its dominance over them. These victories ...
13 Jul 2021 - 12:01
One of the plans for formation of an Islamic government in Afghanistan that would be acceptable to both domestic and foreign actors, and at the same time reflects the Taliban's wishes is a structure that,...
13 Jul 2021 - 11:49
Given the changes in security, political, and strategic equations of the region and world, and the urgent need for the United States to be present in the region, as well as its fear of forming an anti-...
7 Jun 2021 - 08:31
The US-Taliban talks opened a new way towards the intra-Afghan talks. The talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government have been held for several times in Qatar and Moscow, and will continue in ...
24 May 2021 - 13:41
Following the collapse of the Taliban political system, the Bonn Conference was held on the basis of Lakhdar Brahimi’s "light footprint" plan in order to hand over Afghanistan’s control to the Afghan ...
20 Apr 2021 - 11:18
For Afghanistan, the Istanbul Conference is just like the Bonn Conference in 2001. The conference - to be held by the United Nations in cooperation with regional countries and the United States - is scheduled ...
15 Apr 2021 - 10:40
Joe Biden's team is facing a complex dilemma in Afghanistan and it seems that it has not reached a final conclusion yet. Biden's foreign policy team is caught between two conflicting realities in Afghanistan....
13 Mar 2021 - 12:08
The ups and downs of the relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan over recent months, are indicating a serious trouble between the two strategic allies. At first glance, it seems that the starting ...
20 Feb 2021 - 14:07
In the last months of Donald Trump’s administration, it seems that all of his efforts to stabilize Afghanistan have failed. Meanwhile, Turkmenistan's relations with Russia has improved and a kind of balance ...
16 Jan 2021 - 10:03
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 ...
31 Dec 2020 - 13:10
Following the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the presence of the US forces became one of the main variables in analysis of the order of Afghanistan and even the region. During these years, the Americans ...
13 Sep 2020 - 13:37
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 ...
30 Sep 2020 - 13:37
By accepting UNSC Resolution 2513 as one of the four pillars of the future negotiations with the Afghan delegation, the Taliban have sought to highlight the international community's capacity to advance ...
28 Dec 2020 - 09:21
From a geopolitical point of view, Pakistan is the geographical gateway of Mackinder's "Heartland" in South Asia. Located on the southern tip of Eurasia, Pakistan is considered as the shortest sea route ...
24 Dec 2020 - 10:40
Almost 19 years have passed since the fall of the Taliban regime and formation of a new government in Afghanistan. But, despite the country's progress, the place of "public trust" as one of the most important ...
28 Sep 2020 - 13:11
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 ...
24 Sep 2020 - 11:08
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