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Aug 9, 2026, 3:26 PM

Northern Afghanistan Poses Some Challenges for Taliban

Manish Rai-Panjshir, North Afghanistan

Attacks across Badakhshan are puncturing the Taliban’s aura of invincibility, even if the armed resistance remains far from threatening its rule nationwide. Badakhshan, Afghanistan’s vast and mountainous northeastern province, was a center of resistance to Taliban rule during the 1990s....

Aug 2, 2026, 6:24 PM

Balochistan Has Become a Nightmare for the Pakistani Army

Photo Credit- Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan Army

Balochistan is currently experiencing one of the most severe violence outbreaks of the year. In the past few months, Pakistani security forces have suffered heavy casualties due to coordinated rebel attacks. The Pakistani army's General Headquarters (GHQ) was compelled...

Jul 27, 2026, 6:20 PM

America has no alternative to decisive victory. Why that is and how to win

Dear readers, The following text builds on the ideas I expressed a few days ago, on July 18, in a text written here, and also on an article I wrote almost two years ago, entitled 'Why America Stopped Wining Wars.'...

Jul 2, 2026, 9:14 AM

Ultimate Jewish Warriors: Jewish-American Recipients of the Medal of Honor

Photo courtesy www.jewishmilitary.org

Bullets from enemy muskets tore through the drum of Union (United States) Army drummer boy Private Benjamin Levy during the bloody Battle of Glendale of the American Civil War on June 30,1862. His drum destroyed, Private Levy (only 17...

Ratnadeep Chakraborty

Jun 24, 2026, 3:51 PM

The Ally That Became Pakistan’s Nightmare

Taliban fighters take positions in a mountainous border region along the Afghanistan–Pakistan frontier, an area that has witnessed repeated clashes and rising tensions since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. (Wahidullah Kakar/Associated Press)

Volcanoes. You can mistake them for sleeping mountains until the ground begins to tremble. The Taliban-Pakistan frontier today resembles one of those rumbling volcanoes. Since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in August 2021, the border has never truly...

Jun 10, 2026, 7:26 AM

The Victims Nobody Wants to See

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

The Selective Moral Compass: Why Global Tragedies Are Ignored Until They Can Be Blamed on Jews It is a mind blowing reality of modern journalism that the most severe humanitarian crises in the world are routinely dismissed as irrelevant. Day...

Apr 21, 2026, 1:40 PM

The Soldier and The Fog of War: The Trial of Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier

On the morning of April 7, 2026, officers from the Australian Federal Police approached a man stepping off a domestic flight at Sydney Airport and placed him under arrest. The man was Ben Roberts-Smith. Holder of Australia’s highest military...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 21, 2026, 7:32 AM

Israel Keeps Golan as Syria Joins Abraham Accords

With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived for a full normalization with Syria too. This means diplomatic recognition, economic ties, and a strategic partnership under the Abraham...

Apr 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

You had twenty years to fix it. Get out of the way

I’m confused. All the couch Johnny-come-lately foreign policy experts are in an uproar and I can’t understand why. The Iran war two week ceasefire is supposedly upon us and these brilliant commentators are bellyaching that Israel is in violation...

Mar 27, 2026, 7:46 PM

Prudent See Danger: Dennis Coyle’s 421 Days in Taliban Hands Ends in Freedom

American Dennis Coyle, second from right, is accompanied by an unidentified person after being released by Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities, who had held him for over a year, before boarding a plane at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mudassir Safi)

Dennis Coyle stepped off the plane in Texas this week after 421 days in Taliban captivity. The 64-year-old Christian linguist from Pueblo, Colorado, had worked legally in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years developing language resources for local communities. Seized...

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