India’s red-carpet reception for Vladimir Putin this week has sent ripples through Washington. The optics were impossible...
Mazhar Siddique Khan
The Doha Agreement was born of a comforting illusion. It promised that the Taliban—once granted legitimacy and...
There is a dangerous fiction circulating in international discourse that Afghanistan’s turmoil is contained, regionalized and —...
India’s latest display of cross-border bravado — most dramatically the so-called Operation Sindoor, advertised as a “decisive...