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Air superiority has become an increasingly decisive factor in modern warfare. This was clearly demonstrated in the ongoing Afghanistan-Pakistan confrontation of March-February 2026, and was previously evident in October 2025, when Pakistan’s air forc... [1]

ExplainerWith Khamenei dead, who will be Iran’s next supreme leader? A council was formed to lead Iran in the transitional period, while a panel selects the new leader, with Khamenei’s son a potential contender 04:41 Iran’s Supreme leader killed in ... [2]

AFP Afghan and Pakistani troops battled along their border, Afghan residents and officials told AFP on Sunday, with the fighting coming alongside multiple strikes including the former US air base at Bagram. [3]

The Taliban’s new criminal code in Afghanistan is spurring outrage. Among other things, the code has legalised slavery and granted clerics, or the mullahs, legal immunity. [4]

TOKYO -- On Friday, a C-130 evacuation plane dispatched by Japan's Self-Defense Forces took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, for neighboring Pakistan. It had just one Japanese evacuee aboard. [5]

Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences. [6]

AFP Afghan and Pakistani negotiators were locked in crunch peace talks in Istanbul on Friday after deadly border fighting threatened a fragile truce. [7]

WASHINGTON—Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of state, is a familiar face to world leaders vital to American interests. [8]

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[1] TH thediplomat.com · 2026-03-05 · 40% match

Why Is Afghanistan Developing a Drone Industry?

Air superiority has become an increasingly decisive factor in modern warfare. This was clearly demonstrated in the ongoing Afghanistan-Pakistan confrontation of March-February 2026, and was previously evident in October 2025, when Pakistan’s air forc

[2] MM www.scmp.com · 2026-03-01 · 33% match

ExplainerWith Khamenei dead, who will be Iran’s next supreme leader?

ExplainerWith Khamenei dead, who will be Iran’s next supreme leader? A council was formed to lead Iran in the transitional period, while a panel selects the new leader, with Khamenei’s son a potential contender 04:41 Iran’s Supreme leader killed in

[3] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2026-03-02 · 31% match

Afghan, Pakistani forces battle along the border

AFP Afghan and Pakistani troops battled along their border, Afghan residents and officials told AFP on Sunday, with the fighting coming alongside multiple strikes including the former US air base at Bagram.

[4] MM firstpost.com · 2026-01-27 · 40% match

How Taliban's new criminal code legalises slavery, grants clerics immunity

The Taliban’s new criminal code in Afghanistan is spurring outrage. Among other things, the code has legalised slavery and granted clerics, or the mullahs, legal immunity.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-08-28 · 71% match

Japan evacuation from Afghanistan foiled by foot-dragging

TOKYO -- On Friday, a C-130 evacuation plane dispatched by Japan's Self-Defense Forces took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, for neighboring Pakistan. It had just one Japanese evacuee aboard.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-10-23 · 43% match

Pakistan must see reality and build diplomatic ties with Kabul

Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-11-08 · 38% match

Afghan-Pakistan peace talks push ahead after border clashes

AFP Afghan and Pakistani negotiators were locked in crunch peace talks in Istanbul on Friday after deadly border fighting threatened a fragile truce.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2012-12-24 · 40% match

John Kerry a Familiar Face on World Stage

WASHINGTON—Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of state, is a familiar face to world leaders vital to American interests.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2021-08-31 · 40% match

China’s Embrace of the Taliban Has a Painful Resonance in Myanmar

After nearly 20 years, the last US troops have left Afghanistan, concluding America’s longest war and the largest non-combatant evacuation operation in US military history.

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