Putin is too strategic a leader to create his own ‘Afghanistan’, but he will not let the alliance go forward.

Venues such as Australia, India, West Indies and Pakistan may be too hot or too wet for cricket matches

The perception that the pandemic has ‘ended’ and people can stop wearing masks can be catastrophic in some countries

It's been argued that the US is still the world leader but not the global hegemon; is American supremacy under threat?

At no time in Afghanistan’s history did Urdu have more influence in the corridors of power in Kabul than in the 1930s

Obtaining vaccines shouldn’t be a privilege but a fundamental right.

Russia isn’t politicising its aid shipments to Afghanistan that are meant to avert its impending humanitarian crisis

The purpose is to flood the media with revisionist history and thus deflect from India’s recent setbacks

By Saturday most of the delegates, other than the hardcore negotiating teams ,had already left Glasgow

India and the US have comprehensively expanded their military-strategic relations over the past few years