South Asia

A flurry of trade talks herald an economic realignment toward the West.

Hamdullah Mohib, former Afghan national security advisor, spoke about what went wrong, who’s to blame, and what lies in store for his country.

Humanitarian aid must be linked to an effective independent monitoring system.

More than 30 experts grade the U.S. president’s first year of foreign policy.

The Pakistani citizen, a U.S. federal prisoner, has attracted support from extremists around the world.

The slow fall of the nation-state’s monopoly on violence will shape future conflicts.

The Taliban are pressuring exiled diplomats in an attempt to take back Afghanistan’s embassies.

Some are working on resistance. Others, consular services. And all of them must figure out how to keep their embassy’s lights on.

The group wants to trade an American engineer abducted two years ago for an Afghan drug lord imprisoned in the U.S.

Dhaka’s denial of extrajudicial killings is imperiling its relations with Washington and exposing the country’s corrupt police and undemocratic institutions.

The Chinese foreign minister’s island hopping is the latest sign of contestation over the Indo-Pacific.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on a recent spate of hate speech and violence is deafening.

Battle deaths may be down, but regional wars continue to rage as great-power confrontations loom, from Ukraine to Taiwan, amid declining U.S. influence.

India’s farmers’ protests and COVID-19 catastrophe may have slowed the prime minister’s rise.

Famine and destitution loom, yet more aid could strengthen the Taliban.