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For 20 Years in Afghanistan, Ignorance Was Bliss (Peter Isackson, Fair Observer)

The war in Afghanistan is over, but the commentary on what it was all about and where it leaves us is just beginning. The...

Chaos Makes a Comeback in Southern Yemen (Ali Mahmood, Fair Observer)

The six-year conflict in Yemen currently sees a stalemate in Mareb and mounting losses by pro-government forces elsewhere. This has led to the resurgence...

Iran to dismantle terrorist groups in Iraqi Kurdistan: Commander (IRNA)

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri warned terrorist groups settle in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region that if they continue...

Iran dismantles terrorist team in West Azarbaijan province (IRNA)

The Orumiyeh office of Intelligence Ministry has managed to identify and destroy a terrorist team in an area located between Piranshahr and Naqadeh cities...

President Raisi urges ministries to identify capacities for cooperation with SCO (IRNA)

President Ebrahim Raisi said here on Sunday at his cabinet session that expansion of ties with entire regional and neighboring countries is his foreign...

Australia well placed to turbocharge its strategic tech capability (Fergus Hanson, Danielle Cave, ASPI)

Last week’s surprise AUKUS announcement by the United States, Britain and Australia has created a frenzy of focus on nuclear-powered submarines, but the bigger...

What to make of China’s drive towards ‘common prosperity’ (East Asia Forum)

Shoehorning every political development in China today into a black box of the natural behaviour of a Marxist-Leninist authoritarian state is the daily pastime...

Right time for China’s ‘common prosperity’ drive (Cai Fang, East Asia Forum)

Two hands run the Chinese economy, the market and the government. Market forces overwhelmingly allocate resources, after getting prices and incentives right. Government regulates...

Australia signs up to the Anglosphere (Allan Gyngell, East Asia Forum)

Much is still uncertain about the new AUKUS ‘enhanced trilateral security partnership’. The deal for at least eight nuclear submarines to be built in...

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