EXCLUSIVE | Afghan Passports With Indian Visas Stolen in Kabul by Pakistan ISI Backed Terror Group
In what could have turned into a massive security nightmare for New Delhi, CNN-News18 has learnt that several Afghan passports with Indian visas were stolen at a private travel agency in Kab... Read more
TRANSCOM boss vows to ramp up what is already one of the largest airlift operations in history
The head of U.S. Transportation Command, the military organization spearheading the massive humanitarian evacuation effort in Afghanistan, said Monday he expects to ramp up flights out of th... Read more
Concerns over China’s inroads in Bangladesh
Bangladesh does not sit astride the global sea lanes of communications like Sri Lanka. It hasn’t the geo-strategic importance that Maldives, Seychelles or Madagascar has. Along its land bord... Read more
Hunted by the Taliban, U.S.-Allied Afghan Forces Are in Hiding
Columns of Afghan soldiers in armored vehicles and pickup trucks sped through the desert to reach Iran. Military pilots flew low and fast to the safety of Uzbekistan’s mountains. Read more... Read more
Two Hong Kong residents who were accused of working with a group that campaigned for international sanctions on China on Thursday pleaded guilty under the city’s national security law.... Read more
The Biden administration has given 9 justifications for the slow evacuation of Afghan allies
When President Biden announced the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on April 14, one component of that withdrawal was notably missing from his speech: How the United States would help the th... Read more
Explained: Who is Amrullah Saleh, who has declared himself Afghanistan’s ‘caretaker president’
Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan’s vice president since February last year, declared on Tuesday that since President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country and his whereabouts are unknown, he is now t... Read more
Quality of India’s military leadership under test. Moral fibre can overcome political bias
The recent news of the Indian Ministry of Defence examining the selection criteria to the higher echelons of the military hierarchy took me back to what I wrote in 2017 – “India’s march to m... Read more
Border disputes? Let’s make boundaries irrelevant without changing them: Shivshankar Menon
Do we in South Asia have more trouble with our borders, boundaries and frontiers than other parts of the world, and, if so, why? I think not. Objectively speaking, even subregions where mode... Read more
See Russia and China launch joint military drills
Russia’s defense minister on Friday hailed joint war games with China this week as a sign of increasingly close military cooperation that should expand further. Sergei Shoigu flew to China t... Read more