Moscow talks on Afghanistan ended without a joint statement. Pakistan and Kabul need a way to verify militant-sanctuary claims, not another text.

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Recent developments in Greenland and the Falklands reveal the divergence in Europe’s strategic geography and the EU’s institutional geography.

NATO says it never loses Russia's submarines. Its own spokesman is more careful, and two severed Norwegian cables remain unexplained.

Ukraine shot down 90% of Russia’s propeller drones. Against the jet-powered Gerans, that number collapses to 60%.

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland highlights how regional competition over the statelet is fusing conflict zones in the Middle East and Horn of Africa.

China now fields 104 modern destroyers and frigates to Japan's 52. How the balance between the PLA Navy and Japan's MSDF has ...

The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.

Kaga now flies F-35Bs and Izumo is next. Why Japan’s carrier turn is less about the name on the hull than about flexibility, survivability, and the US alliance.

Myanmar mines heavy rare earths that India and the US want, but most flow to China. Could the wartime Stilwell Road open a ...

Sabotage, drones and cyberattacks sit below NATO's Article 5. Von der Leyen's counter-hybrid playbook is Europe's attempt to ...