The 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held on Friday with leaders of member states attending by video link and in-person in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan, as it holds the SCO presidency this year, which marks the 20th anniversary of the organization’s establishment. The meeting was historic, because ...
By Manish Rai The Taliban after much waiting have announced a new interim government of their so-called “Islamic Emirate” in Afghanistan. This delay in government formation didn’t happen because the Taliban were holding talks with other ethnic groups for their inclusion in the government. This is evident from the fact that only one ethnic group dominates the new government which ...
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, after which the US launched its war on terror. In 1975, when I was an exchange student in the US, I was taken to visit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. At that time, it was the ...
After the retreat of the US forces, the Taliban leadership, which has established control over Afghanistan, has announced the future leadership of the country. The announcement has followed the claimed clearing of the Panshir Province from anti-Taliban forces. The spokesperson of the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid declared the leadership of the provisional government of Afghanistan. 1. Acting Prime Minister Mullah Hassan ...
The United States and its NATO allies have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and presence on August 31. US President Biden dedicated major parts of a speech held on the same day to the evacuation efforts, describing these as an “extraordinary success”. Biden said the “assumption — that the Afghan government would be able to ...
Taliban has taken over the driver’s seat in Afghanistan and invites now Chinese companies to invest in the country. Chinese state owned enterprises fear US sanctions as applied against Iran, while the private sector signals will to take a risk. The Taliban has established control over the great part of the country. Now, a test more difficult that war expects ...
By Mehmet Emre Öztürk The crisis in Afghanistan has created a new agenda in Asia-Pacific. The recently published article of the Wall Street Journal, which claimed that the US considers transferring Afghan refugees to its overseas military bases, including those in South Korea, has caused great echo in the said country. The South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong spoke on ...
The Afghanistan crisis, which got into the global political agenda with the withdrawal of the US forces and the takeover the Kabul by the Taliban, still remains as a hot topic. The crisis that shook the world has caused many discussions and evaluations. We spoke about this topic to H.E. Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, Pakistan’s ambassador in Turkey. Pakistan is ...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 20. This has been the last meeting between the two leaders, as Merkel will not be a candidate in the September parliamentary elections in Germany. Still, the meeting was much more that a “farewell visit”, as the German press commented. The list of topics on ...
By Özgür Altınbaş The United States’ 20-years-long occupation of Afghanistan has ended and American troops had to flee the country in a pitiful way. This situation made another US defeat obvious. The US had planned and attempted a coup in Venezuela using Juan Guaido – unsuccessfully. The US had to withdraw from Libya. The National Assembly of Iraq voted and ...