Gaza, Ukraine loom large as G20 foreign ministers meet
G20 foreign ministers open a two-day meeting Wednesday in Brazil, with the outlook bleak for progress on a thorny agenda of conflicts and crises, from the Gaza and Ukraine wars…
Balochistan: the foreign hand?
WITH the present uptick of attacks on security forces, we are back to a familiar routine. Between when a terrorist incident occurs and blame is assigned, the separation is no…
After ‘caliphate’ collapse, IS fighters head to Afghanistan
Islamic State fighters who waged a bloody campaign in Syria and Iraq are heading to Afghanistan to help plot "spectacular" attacks against America, a US official has told AFP. The…
Trump on quest for foreign wins – and drama – in election year
President Donald Trump has shattered norms and niceties on the world stage in his nearly three years in office. Entering an election year, Trump is unlikely to slow down as…
Syrian civil war: Fruits of foreign intervention
THE chaos and carnage that has now spread from Afghanistan through West Asia and the Levant to North Africa and the Sahel is widely ascribed to Al Qaeda, the militant…
Our foreign entanglements
The state’s brutal subjugation of local nationalist movements usually uses the foreign meddler theory as one of its justifications. Taking punitive military action against, say, the Baloch nationalists demanding equitable…
Foreign policy challenges
THE new government emerging from yesterday`s elections will face difficult domestic problems. The external challenges it will confront are equally daunting. The most urgent foreign policy challenges could be summed…
UN report sees no active Syrian state links to Al Qaeda
United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no “active ties” this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading Syria’s interim government, an unpublished UN report said, a finding that…
Syrian letter delivers response to US conditions for sanctions relief
Syria has responded in writing to a list of US conditions for possible partial sanctions relief, saying it had acted on most of them but others required “mutual understandings” with…
Back in the fold, Saudi becomes dealmaker for US, Russia
A pariah under the former US administration, Saudi Arabia has returned to the diplomatic fold, hosting breakthrough US-Russia talks and an Arab leaders’ summit on Gaza in a complete reversal…
