12 Aug 2026
Op-ed
1405-05-03 12:12:49
For the Islamic Republic of Iran, Afghanistan is not merely an eastern neighbor; rather, it constitutes an integral part of the country’s surrounding strategic environment. The long shared border, historical and cultural ties, linguistic and religious ...
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
The ups and downs of the relations between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan over recent months, are indicating a serious trouble between the two strategic allies. At first glance, it seems that the starting ...
20 Feb 2021 - 14:07
Votes of Central Asian countries to important and key issues such as the anti-Iranian human rights resolution have rarely changed. The change of opinion took place only when we witnessed a serious change ...
20 Feb 2021 - 12:25
In the last months of Donald Trump’s administration, it seems that all of his efforts to stabilize Afghanistan have failed. Meanwhile, Turkmenistan's relations with Russia has improved and a kind of balance ...
16 Jan 2021 - 10:03
Some regional countries and major powers with considerable influence in Kyrgyzstan sought to monitor the developments and intervene in the crisis management. Although the main sources of the protests ...
24 Dec 2020 - 10:29
The development of the international railway network from the Iranian city of Khaf to Afghanistan’s Herat and China’s Kashgar through Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan would facilitate transportation and cultural ...
6 Dec 2020 - 11:59
Alongside its language and ethnic boundaries, Afghan society is now facing a new frontier: the “ideological polarization”. Although this ideological polarization is currently mild and overshadowed by ...
10 Nov 2020 - 13:51
By accepting UNSC Resolution 2513 as one of the four pillars of the future negotiations with the Afghan delegation, the Taliban have sought to highlight the international community's capacity to advance ...
28 Dec 2020 - 09:21
From a geopolitical point of view, Pakistan is the geographical gateway of Mackinder's "Heartland" in South Asia. Located on the southern tip of Eurasia, Pakistan is considered as the shortest sea route ...
24 Dec 2020 - 10:40
Russia has so far shown no opposition to the presence of the regional countries in the regional convergence platforms and it seems that Moscow does not see the level of movements as contradictory to its ...
10 Oct 2020 - 10:17
Almost 19 years have passed since the fall of the Taliban regime and formation of a new government in Afghanistan. But, despite the country's progress, the place of "public trust" as one of the most important ...
28 Sep 2020 - 13:11
The announcement of Donald Trump's new strategy in Afghanistan received mixed reactions from the Afghan and Pakistani officials. Through a purely security point of view and regardless of other problems ...
24 Sep 2020 - 10:54
The new US strategy targets the whole region rather than Afghanistan alone. The designers of this strategy seek to create a new arrangement of the regional actors in a bid to maintain the US hegemony ...
24 Sep 2020 - 11:08
The Eurasian Economic Union, as one of the most important convergence trends among the post-Soviet states, would not achieve a political convergence in the short-term. Even reaching to such a level of ...
24 Sep 2020 - 11:39
Strategies for Enhancing the Resilience of Afghanistan’s Non-Pashtun Ethnic Groups to Reduce Migration
Analysis of developments in Afghanistan, from March 2024 to March 2025
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