Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. There has also been a tentative agreement reached between China and ...

Last year, Operation Sindoor brought focus to what has been a fact - Pakistan's lack of strategic depth - and also showed how that old geographical weakness now matters in a new way.

FOR decades, the United States sailed the oceans like an untouchable battleship, and Israel stood in the Middle East like a ...

In a recent article on the US-Israeli war on Iran, US General Lloyd Austin emphasises technology at the expense of geography and politics.

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan surge as Islamabad says TTP militants operate from Afghan soil with impunity.

The war in Ukraine shattered a core assumption about great-power dominance: that size and military strength are enough to ...

BEIJING — China’s government said Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting between the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 rattled parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan late Friday, killing at least eight people in ...

The most recent cross-border hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan show how tensions have crossed a dangerous threshold. The significant escalation was originally triggered by Pakistan’s ...

A weekslong war between Pakistan and Afghanistan was paused on March 18, 2026, to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. But that does not mean the conflict is over. Neither side showed any ...

In the rugged geography of the Hindu Kush, isolation has long been a tool of survival. But for the Taliban-led administration in early 2026, that isolation has become a trap. Afghanistan currently ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital late Monday, saying the airstrike had killed at least 400 people. It marked a ...