Middle Asia
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Afghanistan and Kazakhstan’s Evolving Policy
Afghanistan’s market (as an importer of industrial and agricultural products) and its position (as a trade route that can connect Central Asia to countries such as Pakistan, with significant ports) are both critically important to Kazakhstan and shape its emerging…
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Dushanbe’s ‘ambiguous’ relations with Afghanistan-led Taliban
Afghanistan remains outside the UN and any international convention, and Tajikistan maintains the most intransigent position among the neighboring countries, asking for an agreed and "inclusive" government of all nationalities, something that the Taliban do not seem to want to…
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Gaza Crisis and the $14 Billion Question; What’s Next?
In his remarks during his visit to Israel last week, Biden acknowledged that, in its response to 9/11, the United States "made mistakes." Two decades later, is the United States repeating the same mistakes in its efforts to back Israel?
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China Opened Observation Station in Tajikistan
DID Press: China has opened a super observation station at Tajikistan-Afghanistan border with probably dual purposes.
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Selection of Iran and Saudi Arabia Ambassadors Underway/ the President Invited to Riyadh: Amirabdollahian
DID Press: Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan met high-ranking Iranian authorities during his trip to Tehran where he attended a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Amirabdollahian.
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Dawn of Drone Age in Central Asia
The arsenal of the five republics will see their stocks of UAVs increase in the near future. Whether and how they are put to a use or not, that is a separate question
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Afghanistan and the Potential for a U.S.-Uzbekistan Partnership
The instability that arose from the August 2021 collapse of the U.S.-backed regime and rise of the Taliban has provoked renewed fears of transnational drug smuggling and terrorism
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Ta-liban Urge Turkmenistan to Clarify its Position on TAPI project
Did Press: Taliban delegation have met Turkmen officials and asked them to clarify their position on the work of the TAPI project, say Taliban official sources.
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