Taliban government is rushing to court local and foreign investors to exploit the country's underground wealth and secure a crucial revenue stream.

The Taliban fought U.S. and NATO forces for two decades, eventually returning to power in August 2021 amid a deadly and chaotic withdrawal of foreign troops. Shaheen was part of the Taliban’s ...

Canada’s Business Council is pushing to triple the country’s military spending while cutting other government programs. This ...

Senior Taliban officials in Afghanistan say they hope for better relations with Iran after a visit from its foreign minister.

It would be easy for President Donald Trump to exclude his European counterparts from peace negotiations to end the war in ...

For the first time since the 1990s, the US has reestablished a direct military presence in Scotland. As Washington builds up its new Cold War, Scotland’s political class is its willing servant.

Looking back on Biden’s foreign policy, the saddest thing I see is his failure to exert sufficient pressure to ensure his praiseworthy efforts led to success — see Ukraine, the expansion of NATO, and ...

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called for an urgent "shift to a wartime mindset," warning that the alliance's members are not prepared enough for an increasing security threat posed by ...

NATO Image NATO on Tuesday launched operation Baltic Sentry to deter further attempts to damage critical underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. Secretary General Mark Rutte announced the ...

Poland puts its air defence systems on the ‘highest state of readiness’ in response to Moscow’s missile strikes close to its border Nato warplanes were scrambled overnight because of a major ...

Mark Webber is affiliated with the NATO Defence College in Rome as a Senior Non-resident Fellow. Donald Trump’s return to the White House poses existential questions for Nato. Divisions in the ...