The bloodbath in Afghanistan continues unabated
The Afghan defense ministry said on Wednesday that at least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military base...
Trump’s rejection of a tyrannical system
Jacob G. Hornberger | Notwithstanding President Trump’s many faults, failures, and foibles, let’s give credit where credit is due. Last week a suspected member of...
Punishing Pakistan on Afghanistan: US Befuddled Policy
Adnan Qaiser | While the history of Afghanistan is written in blood; it is also inked in flawed outlook and failed policies. Apart from Afghans’...
The flaws in the master plan
Afrah Jamal | The master plan chalked out in a piece, ‘Calling Pakistan’s Bluff’ by Whitney Kassel and Philip Reiner in Foreign Affairs (14 July 2017) came laden with glaring...
Immigration, socialism produces more death and sufferings
Jacob G. Hornberger | Everywhere you look, socialism is in crisis. Not just in Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba, but also right here in the...
Plot thickens in great game over post-ISIS Iraq and Syria
M K Bhadrakumar | The post-ISIS future of Iraq and Syria has been a topic of animated discussion among American think tankers, the assumption being...
Exclusive Interview : Pakistan an integral part of the Afghan solution; Dr Marvin Weinbaum
The Trump administration is in its seventh month into power, and despite a small troop increase, has yet to announce a clear policy for...
US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran,...
US plan to (re)occupy Iraq faces resistance
M K Bhadrakumar | The US’s longstanding project to push for an independent Kurdistan in the oil-rich regions of northern Iraq and Syria in the...
Trump’s dictatorial travel ban to North Korea
Jacob G. Hornberger | Last Friday, President Trump issued a decree-law that prohibits Americans from traveling to North Korea. His justification for infringing on one...
Don’t be surprised to see Trump bomb North Korea
Jacob G. Hornberger | After the in-your-face Fourth of July “gift” that North Korea delivered to President Trump in the form of an intercontinental ballistic...
A new normal in Russia-China military cooperation
M K Bhadrakumar | No sooner than the annual Malabar 2017 exercise (July 14-17) ended in the Bay of Bengal, another naval exercise has begun...