Dispatch

Authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Minsk are aiding Iraqis and Afghans in order to sow chaos and domestic discord in Eastern European countries.

Russia isn’t cracking heads ahead of this weekend’s parliamentary vote—just boring people away from the polls.

A growing conspiracy movement is likely to spread false narratives about the results, with echoes of Trump.

A few weeks after militants took over Kabul and the country, Afghanistan has gone back to a past it didn’t miss.

Why Turkey’s ruling party views environmentalism as a threat.

As the massive wave driven by the delta variant spreads to outlying regions, official data may not reflect the scale of the tragedy.

Brutal police responses have prompted a shift in once-peaceful movements.

The government can claim real successes amid the disaster, but rumors are running wild.

Along one part of the Turkish border, hundreds of new Afghan migrants show up every day.

Tehran’s Shiite regime has strategic, economic, ideological, and ecological reasons for backing Sunni extremists.

In a new chapter for Afghanistan, women are particularly vulnerable.

Ten provincial capitals have fallen in a week, and Kabul is teetering.

Six more Afghan provinces fell over the weekend, and Kabul fears the “country will fall apart.”

Killings by militiamen in Herat underscore the risks of relying on armed civilians to fight off the Taliban.

The last 20 years saw a renaissance in the Afghan media landscape. Now, it’s crumbling.

No one has been held accountable for the explosion, even as Lebanon spirals further into economic catastrophe.

With schools shut for over a year, limited access to technology is exacerbating the education gap, leaving Indigenous communities behind.

Europe’s “illiberal democrat” is on a quest to remake the continent’s politics.

Key cities including Herat and Kandahar could be the next to fall as Afghanistan’s nightmare continues.

Increased economic inequality has only added to widespread discontent.