Chayanika Saxena

Sitting at the intersections of many regions, the location of Afghanistan has exposed it to the tumults of geopolitics as much as it has placed...

It’s  been  three  months since the President of USA,  Donald Trump, made his country’s  intent  clear that it would stay put in  Afghanistan for as...

US President Donald Trump unveiled his much-touted Afghan policy on 21 August 2017. Trump announced to adopt a condition-based policy instead of a calendar-driven agenda,...

A theatre of rivalries in the past, Afghanistan continues to be an experiment ground for regional and international permutations and combinations – those that put...

Blasts and the consequent loss of human lives and damage to property are, unfortunately, not new to Afghanistan. The dent that is caused to domestic...

Democracy was ‘restored’ in Afghanistan following decades of violence and conflicts. Where violent uprisings against the invading Soviet Union by the Mujahedeen wrecked the rural...

Is it finally peace time in Afghanistan? Cutting peace deals with warring factions is generally considered one step forward in the direction of peace. But...

Following almost four decades of violence and conflict, a new political framework was introduced in Afghanistan on the back of international and regional material and...

Ever since the Red Army had descended on a land that is notoriously known as the ‘graveyard of empires’, stability and security in Afghanistan became...

Taliban has all along been considered a formidable, resilient unified front with an effective chain of command. But, like every other entity that is prone...

With an exit forced on Taliban in 2001, the world had come to believe that it was finally time when the winds of change would...

A matter of international deliberation (or rather, contention), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to capture the imagination of the entire...