For decades, Pakistan’s Army has been accused of being a “force for hire,” dispatched to faraway deserts for the right price, subcontracting security in exchange for aid and favors. But such labels miss the deeper truth. When the Muslim world has faced existential crises from the burning streets of Amman in 1970, to the missile-scarred […]
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Donald Trump’s announcement this week that the United States is “trying to get Bagram back” has jolted a debate many in Washington hoped to bury after the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Standing beside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump described the decision to abandon America’s largest Afghan airfield as a strategic disaster, not because of
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The emergence of social media has redefined the dynamics of human interaction, collapsing geographical distances and creating unprecedented opportunities for global communication. These platforms, while hailed for their capacity to connect societies, have simultaneously evolved into powerful instruments of extremist exploitation. Terrorist groups, once restricted to limited channels of traditional media, now thrive in the
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Few countries in the modern era have endured as much violence, instability, and external interference as Afghanistan. For more than four decades, the country has remained a battlefield of competing ideologies, foreign interventions, and internal conflicts. The consequences of this protracted turmoil have been devastating not only for Afghanistan itself but also for its neighbors,
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The specter of terrorism that once haunted the rugged tribal belts of Pakistan has now morphed into a transnational menace, with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) at its vanguard. What was once confined to the harsh mountains of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has spilled into Pakistan’s urban centers, injecting fear into every strata
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Nearly twenty-five years have passed since the September 11 attacks shook the United States, reshaped global security, and triggered what was hailed as the most coordinated counterterrorism campaign in history. In that time, America has waged wars, toppled regimes, killed or captured al-Qaeda’s masterminds, and driven the so-called Islamic State from its strongholds. Yet the
The militant landscape in Afghanistan and Pakistan is entering a volatile new phase, shaped by the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul and the resulting re calibration of terrorist strategies across the region. The Taliban’s reassertion of authority has emboldened some groups, triggered new rivalries, and set the stage for a potentially explosive confrontation that
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The shadow of September 11, 2001, still hangs heavy over international politics, and the world cannot afford to ignore the dangerous question confronting us today: is Afghanistan once again becoming the epicenter of global terrorism? In May 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement that Washington was weighing whether to designate the Taliban as
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In April 2013, a seismic shift occurred in the already fractured militant landscape of Iraq and Syria. Out of the embers of war, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) was born. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sought to merge Al-Qaeda’s Iraqi offshoot, the Islamic State of Iraq formed in 2006 with Jabhat al-Nusra, the
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More than three years after the last U.S. troops departed Afghanistan, Bagram Airfield once the beating heart of American military power in South Asia has returned to the geopolitical spotlight. But this time, its runways and barracks are not staging combat sorties or housing allied troops. Instead, they have become a rhetorical battlefield in a
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