India

India faces escalating tensions with China after new PLA structures near Pangong Tso, continued troop readjustments in Ladakh, and rising activity in the LAC’s middle sector. Concerns also grow over Chinese expansion near Shaksgam Valley. Kashmir militancy and cross‑border threats from Pakistan and Myanmar persist.

The mercenary pipeline: How economic desperation fuels the global trade in foreign fighters

As states formalize foreign fighter recruitment from Latin America to South Asia, a new architecture of exploitative warfare emerges that weaponizes poverty and marginalizes populations seeking escape from structural inequality

By Diego Martinez, Elena Kowalski, Layla Hassan and Featured News Desk

/ 8 Nov 2025

The mercenary pipeline: How economic desperation fuels the global trade in foreign fighters

Can Turkey-Qatar Mediation End the Afghan-Pakistan Crisis?

Istanbul talks face Afghanistan-Pakistan's Durand Line dispute, TTP sanctuary issue, and competing regional powers. Can external mediation resolve structural conflicts?

By Layla Hassan and Chen Wei-Lin

/ 25 Oct 2025

Can Turkey-Qatar Mediation End the Afghan-Pakistan Crisis?

Trump's Oil Blockade: Can Sanctions Force Putin to Negotiate?

U.S. targets Rosneft and Lukoil in boldest sanctions yet. India and China hold the key to strangling Russia's war economy—or enabling its survival.

By Elena Kowalski

/ 23 Oct 2025

Trump's Oil Blockade: Can Sanctions Force Putin to Negotiate?

Europe's €210B Frozen Assets Trap: Putin Wins Budapest

Budapest summit collapse reveals why EU can't touch €210B in Russian funds—legal paralysis, Belgian veto power, and institutional dysfunction hand Putin victory

By Elena Kowalski

/ 23 Oct 2025

Europe's €210B Frozen Assets Trap: Putin Wins Budapest

Trump's Gaza Ceasefire: Strategic Pause or Genuine Peace?

Trump's Gaza peace plan paused the war but left core conflicts unresolved. Analysis reveals why the ceasefire is fragile and what comes next in Phase Two talks.

By Layla Hassan

/ 22 Oct 2025

Trump's Gaza Ceasefire: Strategic Pause or Genuine Peace?

Pakistan Faces Two-Front War as Afghanistan Border Erupts

Pakistan battles violence on Afghan border while managing India ceasefire. Analysis of South Asia's most dangerous security crisis since 1971.

By Layla Hassan and Chen Wei-Lin

/ 19 Oct 2025

Pakistan Faces Two-Front War as Afghanistan Border Erupts

Trump's Caucasus Peace Deal: Can It End 40 Years of War?

The US-brokered Armenia-Azerbaijan peace formalizes ethnic cleansing, creates a strategic corridor, and reshapes South Caucasus power—but can it last?

By Viktor Petersen and Elena Kowalski

/ 16 Oct 2025

Trump's Caucasus Peace Deal: Can It End 40 Years of War?

Pakistan-Taliban Rift: How India Exploits Afghanistan Crisis

As Pakistan's Taliban alliance collapses, India seizes historic opportunity in Afghanistan. The 48-hour ceasefire masks a seismic regional realignment.

By Layla Hassan

/ 16 Oct 2025

Pakistan-Taliban Rift: How India Exploits Afghanistan Crisis