Tag: Pakistan
499 Killed Since 2025 in Afghanistan-Pakistan Clashes
Fighting between Pakistani forces and Afghanistan's de facto security forces killed 499 civilians and wounded 1,216 inside Afghanistan between October 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a report published July 28.Between April and June alone, UNAMA documented 57 civilians killed…
Militants Kill 11 Police in Pakistan Drone Ambush
Eleven police officers were killed in northwest Pakistan late Wednesday after militants struck the Khazina Banda police post in Hangu district, near the Afghan border, then ambushed reinforcements sent to the area.Militants first hit the post with improvised explosives attached to quadcopters, according to a police statement cited by Al…
Pakistan Is Useful Again. Can That Last?
A few years ago Pakistan was slipping out of international view. Relations with the West had deteriorated, domestic politics were consumed by the confrontation surrounding former Prime Minister Imran Khan, and an economy close to default left Islamabad dependent on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and on emergency support from…
A New Gulf Order Emerges Under Fire
The US-Iran war is achieving what decades of summits and declarations could not: it has handed the Gulf monarchies a single, immediate security problem. Iranian missiles and drones have repeatedly struck Gulf territory. Reported strikes on Kuwaiti electricity-generation and water-desalination facilities took generating units out of service. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis…
US Strikes Near Bushehr as Truce Fractures
The collapse of the Islamabad Memorandum's fragile truce is not an accidental drift. It reflects a calculated Iranian strategy to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz, where Tehran has pushed commercial vessels toward routes and protocols set by the regime itself, a bid for what Britannica describes as hegemonic…
