There is a spice sitting quietly in your kitchen cabinet that, by weight, has rivaled gold throughout much of human history.

This recurrence of war across multiple fronts exhibits deeper geopolitical currents reshaping the region and leaving little ...

Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border on Friday as the ​U.N. said their week-old ...

For years, Europe has endured President Donald Trump’s complaints that it is a complacent continent hiding under America’s ...

A new international refugee crisis may emerge from the Iran war. The humanitarian consequences of the Iran war will likely be ...

The development of an air force in Afghanistan is closely linked to the Soviet Union. In the 1950s, with Soviet assistance, Bagram Air Base was constructed, becoming a core element of the country’s ...

Afghan and Pakistani troops have clashed along their border since early 2026, but widely shared videos supposedly depicting ...

For a country battling insurgencies in two provinces, facing a hostile Afghan Taliban regime, and grappling with deep internal divisions, instability in a neighbouring state carries tangible security ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Monday that their militaries had targeted each other's posts across the border as their fighting entered a ​fifth day, fuelling instability in a region rocked by ...

Afghan officials said they had thwarted a Pakistani airstrike on the former U.S. base, Bagram airfield, amid an intensifying ...

As long as Washington sees Iran at the edge of the Middle East rather than the center of “West Asia,” it will continue to ...