Focusing on ISIS: Are we losing sight of a bigger enemy in Afghanistan?
Michael Kugelman | On April 13, the U.S. military dropped a huge bomb on caves and tunnels used by Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan....
Trump’s ‘America First’ reappears centre stage
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team bears an appearance of being dominated by the military brass. This, in turn,...
Trump’s upcoming pilgrimage capture’s the world’s attention!
The Whitehouse has announced that President Donald Trump will be embarking on his very first foreign visit. The focal points of his visit are...
How the USA ensures that its ‘desired parties’ are elected abroad
Daniel McAdams | Washington's hysteria about Russian interference in the US presidential election has long since metastasized to a good chunk of the rest of the country....
China wants US and North Korea to ‘stop irritating each other’
China has urged restraint over the situation in North Korea as both sides continue to release provocative statements. China while not happy with North...
Candidate Donald Trump is surfacing again: A series of pleasant surprises
T.S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month”. For those who wanted a Trump administration that was anti-interventionist, diplomatic, and focused mainly on domestic...
Mother of All Bombs: nothing more than a mere theatrical act by the US?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The BBC’s first-hand report from the remote site in the southern Afghanistan province of Nangarhar where the US dropped the Mother...
Terrorism, conflicts, and humiliation: What else will “Trump’s world” offer?
Stephen J. Adler, Jeff Mason, and Steve Holland | Washington - President Donald Trump complained on Thursday that U.S. ally Saudi Arabia was not treating...
Turkish airstrikes in Syria: Has the US lost another Middle-Eastern ally?
Mehmet Ersoy | Turkey, which keeps targeting the U.S. allies, is up to pretend that it has taken one of the leading roles in the...
US vows to force N.Korea back to nuclear talks
The United States pledged Wednesday to step up sanctions to force North Korea to resume dialogue over its nuclear program but said it was...
U.S will confront Russia about its role in Afghanistan
M. K. Bhadrakumar | The seething US-Russia rivalry in Afghanistan took a sharp turn with the explosive threat held out by the visiting US Defense...
On Afghanistan: How successful will the US be adopting a hardline policy towards Pakistan?
Dr Muhammad Ali Ehsan | Just days after the visit of US national security advisor Lieutenant General HR McMaster to Pakistan, we saw the enormous...