Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boun ...

A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...

This article is authored by Pravesh Kumar Gupta, associate fellow (Eurasia), Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi.

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The events of September 11, 2001, and the U.S.-led war against terrorism in Afghanistan and beyond have dramatically underscored the strategic value of Central Asia to the West and present new ...

BANGLADESH has ranked the 151st, two steps lower than the 2023 rank, in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 that ...

The volatile Donald Trump seems an unlikely harbinger of peace in West Asia, but he might be the only hope to rein in an ...

Turkish President Erdogan's 2025 visit to Pakistan can prove to be major turning point for Pakistan and region. The visit comes at a time when the national political leadership within Islamic world is ...

Freedom of worship is tenuous around the globe. The Pew Research Center’s latest annual report found “high” or “very high” levels of government constraints on religion in 59 of the 198 countries and ...

ASTANA – Leora Shekufeh Eisenberg, a doctoral student at Harvard and a historian with a degree from Princeton University, has ...

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is scheduled to meet members of the central administrative board of the Justice and ...