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International leaders are struggling to manage a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan; they are torn between their commitment to alleviate Afghans’ suffering and their reluctance to legitimize a Taliban government that violates its people’s basic rights. Helping Afghans but not their new “de facto authorities” is a difficult balance for a diverse group of international actors with often divergent long-term interests.

Legitimizing the Taliban’s rule is not the solution to Afghanistan’s current and future problems.

A gathering of regional foreign ministers to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan this week brought little in the way of new initiatives but provided a forum for several of Kabul’s neighbors to blame the country’s economic plight on the United States and its Western allies. The United States “was described as an irresponsible actor,…

WASHINGTON - A gathering of regional foreign ministers to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan this week brought little in the way of new initiatives

Russia, China, Iran blame America for Afghanistan’s plight and say it should pay for its reconstruction

This year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit was held in Uzbekistan in mid-September. With new countries eager to join the Eurasian multilateral alliance—including Iran and Turkey—the SCO increasingly represents a powerful counterbalance to Western-led organisations and a major step in the world’s transition to multipolarity.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday attended the first tripartite summit with his counterparts from Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

India has launched the official website of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as it will host the next SCO summit as a chairman of organisation in 2023.

The past week was marked by further social and economic progress and cardinal changes that fully reflected the huge economic and humanitarian potential of the country and the successes achieved under the leadership of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov in...

The heads of state and government attending the 9th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States have planted trees under the “Green Space” project in Registan Square in Samarkand