The Battle for Eurasia
China, Russia, and their autocratic friends are leading another epic clash over the world’s largest landmass.
Kais Saied’s government refuses to reckon with the country’s rampant anti-Semitism.
The absence of a U.S. diplomatic presence leaves Washington powerless and strengthens the extremists in Kabul.
Extremist curriculum is teaching children how to hate, not how to think.
The group’s Afghanistan branch is capitalizing on the Russia-Ukraine war to recruit, fundraise, and incite violence.
The U.N. meets this week to decide whether to play by Taliban rules or pull out. Both are bad.
A power struggle in the capital, Khartoum, could destabilize neighboring Chad and impact the entire Sahel region.
Nothing says forever like the promise of Afghanistan’s mineral riches.
Extremism, more than all the other crises, challenges Pakistan’s very survival.
Washington withdrew from a 20-year fight against terrorism, vowing to maintain over-the-horizon capability. It’s still squinting.
Left in the cold, the extremists are falling back on an old trick of swapping foreigners for favors.
Young militants are ditching old-style factionalism to fight Israel’s occupation.
Twenty years on, the war still shapes policy—mostly for the worse.
The Taliban are marking International Women’s Day with an ever-worsening cascade of abuses against women.
Inside the debate over whether the West should engage the regime.
Congress wants to know what happened to the guns and money the United States left behind.
Long-suffering residents near the Afghan border are voicing their grievances with militancy—as well as the powers that be.
As the Taliban start to crack, Afghanistan is once again the proxy battleground of terrorists and their backers.