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 ...

Afghanistan continues to host an estimated 3.22 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), 1.6 million IDP returnees, some 76,000 refugee returnees who returned in 2023 and over 34,000 refugees, ...

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 ...

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For much of the modern era, Central Asia – including Afghanistan and China’s western Xinjiang province – has been treated as a geopolitical periphery. Long viewed as an isolated buffer zone shaped by ...

World Bank & Afghanistan Resilience Trust Fund (ARTF) Support for the People of Afghanistan Since August 2021, the World Bank has provided more than $1.7 billion in support to the Afghan people – ...

A special panel’s investigation of the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearly complete, with the Pentagon saying a final report is expected in the coming months. The Afghanistan ...

The United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT) has released satellite images showing the aftermath of a 6.0 magnitude earthquake with a death toll that has surpassed 1,400 and which left more than 3,000 ...