Khaf-Herat Railway is an old project that dates back to the Daud Khan period in the 1970s. Due to the outbreak of wars in Afghanistan, the implementation of this plan was postponed for several decades....

The Interior Minister of Pakistan announced that the plan to transfer the members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to areas far from the Pakistan border has been finalized by the Afghan Taliban government....

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC), as the security arm of the United Nations, periodically reviews the latest situation of Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) by two separate teams. A comparative ...

According to the systemic theory in political studies, the institution of power is a dynamic and living system, and if it cannot adapt itself to the surrounding environment, its survival and durability ...

The relations between Tehran and Tashkent have experienced a growing trend in recent years. However, trade exchanges of less than one billion dollars, and the lack of mutual strategic dependencies can ...

Strategic partnership is an upgraded level of relations between countries. This partnership has some strategic features, but its level of commitments is lower. Economy has a very decisive role in this ...

In recent years, Turkey has had a specific view on playing a strategic role in the geo-economic fields of Central Asia. During the past year, these efforts have been more pragmatic than ever, and have ...

In the current situation that the relations between Russia and the United States are in one of the worst possible conditions, the strengthening of the C5+1 political Platform by the U.S. and its increasing ...

Since centuries ago, Afghanistan has been a center for the game of powers, and the contradictory role of great and regional powers has had a great impact on the change of systems, political stability ...

Currently, due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, there is a concern that the Western supporters of the Islamic State group (ISIS) will again send young migrant workers from Central Asian countries ...

The relations of Taliban- ruled Afghanistan with other countries can be considered in three categories: 1) Afghanistan's close neighbors, which are the most important economic partners of this country ...

Afghanistan never got the opportunity to build a state. In the 100-year history of this country, the process of becoming a nation-state was interrupted many times. Although the Taliban did not get the ...

Americans' evaluation of the consequences of withdrawing from Afghanistan is as this: the Taliban's relationship with China is improving; its relationship with Russia is not something to Washington’s ...

The EU sees Central Asia as a highly strategic region, neighboring powerful and/or problematic countries such as Russia, China, Afghanistan and Iran. Now more than ever, Brussels aims to help the Central ...

The Second Resistance, which has been active in Afghanistan for more than a year, is still lacks an un-contradicted narrative. This vacuum causes the resistance to show ambiguous and double behaviors....

There is one issue that has kept the Taliban government's foreign policy ambiguous in the region and at the international level: Whether the Taliban is trying to maintain Afghanistan's neutrality in the ...

The 9th summit of Turkic-speaking countries which was held in the form of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) summit on November 11 and 12, 2022 in the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, had remarkable ...

In recent years, the demographic context in the major cities of Afghanistan has changed significantly due to the migration of villagers and the return of immigrants from abroad. This type of demographic ...

The Institute for East Strategic Studies (IESS) hosted a panel discussion with attendance of Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian president's special envoy on Afghanistan affairs.

From Britain’s point of view, Pakistan has weakened the political leverage of Western powers in South Asia, due to interaction with China and some regional powers. Hence, investing in soft power, including ...