THE Afghan Taliban’s retaking of Kabul may be the climax of a 20-year-long war in Afghanistan but

The beginning of August was marked by two events that, in the absence of their fundamental significance for the global agenda, are essential for understanding what international politics may look like in the future. First, there was a de facto rupture of relations between China and the small Baltic

proxy battle for the Gombak division head’s position. Farhash is PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar

Mitch McConnell is locked in a proxy war with former President Donald Trump this fall as both

priority remains its own survival and financing its proxies and partners over its people.... So

power ”.... He has said it is an insult to Ukrainians to suggest so.“ A proxy war is when someone

Iran is pressuring its main proxy in the Middle East not to target Israel in retaliation to a

Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save The Pentagon on Sunday announced a new round of airstrikes on Iranian facilities in Syria that officials said were linked to dozens of recent attacks targeting U.S. troops there and in neighboring Iraq.... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his military’s assault on the enclave.... Militia personnel were present when the strikes occurred there, and the Pentagon determined that some were ki

The new law mandates police censorship and covert digital surveillance, rules that can be applied to online speech across the world. Now, the Hong Kong government is crafting web controls to appease the most prolific censor on the planet, the Chinese Communist Party.... We have full confidence in Hong Kong, ” he said, alluding to a quote from the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping about the city. Google’s experience over the past year shows the fraught position that the largest U.S. internet com

“ failed ” against Pakistan’s Operation Bunyanum Marsoos during the recent conflict, and its[ proxies