9 Jun 2025
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During Nowruz (the Persian New Year, literally means New Day), citizens of various regions of Turkmenistan engage in their traditional ceremonies. These include lighting fires (Şam-od) and jumping over them, growing sabzeh (greenery), organizing Nowruz ...
Gilgit-Baltistan is a Shia-populated region which is part of Azad Jammu and Kashmir under Pakistan control. Prior to the 1970s, all of the region’s ethnic and religious groups were living in peace and ...
8 May 2022 - 08:40
The power networks exist in all societies. In modern societies, the power networks have specific rules and patterns of behavior, and operate within a defined framework. However, in traditional societies ...
26 Apr 2022 - 07:53
Afghanistan is a country that has always had a center-periphery relationship with the world's major powers, and its economic and military dependence has historically been influenced by this relationship....
16 Apr 2022 - 07:57
Following the fall of republic in Afghanistan after 20 years, the Taliban once again gained power in the country. However, experience shows that gaining power is one thing and maintaining it is another....
16 Feb 2022 - 12:32
Instabilities caused by public uprisings are considered as potential crises in many authoritarian countries, such as the Central Asian states. Extreme authoritarianism, along with constant suppression ...
10 Feb 2022 - 11:37
Over the past four decades, Afghanistan initially was engaged in security dynamics with South Asia, and after the US invasion of the country in 2001, it established reciprocal security dynamics with the ...
15 Jan 2022 - 10:21
Over the past decades, China's foreign policy towards Afghanistan has been largely a kind of reaction to the policies of major powers such as the former Soviet Union, the United States and NATO. Even ...
26 Dec 2021 - 09:49
South Asia is considered to be a distinct and fragmented part of a single geography whose actors have always been at odds with each other in terms of religion, political system and global interactions,...
18 Dec 2021 - 13:14
It seems that the Taliban’s rule is the inevitable fate of Afghanistan. Although this government, as in the past, has adopted the medieval methods, and shows incompatibility with the legal principles ...
27 Oct 2021 - 21:45
When ISIS announced the emergence of ISKP (ISIS–K) in Afghanistan, the then Afghan government categorically denied the ISKP' presence in the country for a year, but after the revelation of ISKP activities ...
21 Oct 2021 - 12:27
If the Taliban had taken over Kabul after a heavy war, they would now have been overwhelmed with excitement, but it did not happen. The Taliban suddenly found themselves in a situation that they were ...
13 Sep 2021 - 13:55
The US president ended the country’s 20-year war in Afghanistan by announcing an unconditional withdrawal. However, since then the war in Afghanistan has entered a new phase because the Taliban know that ...
27 Jul 2021 - 00:19
After its second rise in 2005, the Taliban gradually began to capture territory and form a shadow government. The group also captured some remote areas and established its dominance over them. These victories ...
13 Jul 2021 - 12:01
One of the plans for formation of an Islamic government in Afghanistan that would be acceptable to both domestic and foreign actors, and at the same time reflects the Taliban's wishes is a structure that,...
13 Jul 2021 - 11:49
Culture and cultural relations, in the form of public diplomacy and as one of the most important fields of foreign relations between Iran and the world, have always been under the spotlight since the ...
6 Jul 2021 - 09:47
Given the changes in security, political, and strategic equations of the region and world, and the urgent need for the United States to be present in the region, as well as its fear of forming an anti-...
7 Jun 2021 - 08:31
The US-Taliban talks opened a new way towards the intra-Afghan talks. The talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government have been held for several times in Qatar and Moscow, and will continue in ...
24 May 2021 - 13:41
Following the collapse of the Taliban political system, the Bonn Conference was held on the basis of Lakhdar Brahimi’s "light footprint" plan in order to hand over Afghanistan’s control to the Afghan ...
20 Apr 2021 - 11:18
For Afghanistan, the Istanbul Conference is just like the Bonn Conference in 2001. The conference - to be held by the United Nations in cooperation with regional countries and the United States - is scheduled ...
15 Apr 2021 - 10:40
Joe Biden's team is facing a complex dilemma in Afghanistan and it seems that it has not reached a final conclusion yet. Biden's foreign policy team is caught between two conflicting realities in Afghanistan....
13 Mar 2021 - 12:08
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