India's highway network grew 61% and logistics costs halved. But contract awards are falling and 1,775 projects are Rs 3.4 lakh crore over budget.

Dhaka is deepening ties with Washington and Beijing at once. Where the strategic thresholds lie for India, China, and the US, and what would cross them.

China's envoy warned of consequences for Taiwan at the 2026 Pacific Islands Forum in Palau. How Beijing pressures the PIF, and how the Quad answers.

Canada’s defense spending surge targets 125,000 new jobs by 2035. Unmanned systems, not autos, may be the industry that replaces what tariffs took.

Afghanistan’s opium ban cut cultivation by 96%. Its effects on global narcotics markets, and on criminal revenues and profits, are far less certain.

As the border has grown increasingly unstable, Bangladesh now faces three worsening challenges involving the Arakan Army: Alongside the existing 1.5 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Rohingya ...

Thailand, Brazil and Colombia chose the Gripen over US fighters. The reason is not price or stealth, but who keeps a veto over the software.

ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...

Peacemaking has shifted toward military capacity at the expense of universalism, but peace cannot be reduced to the absence ...

The Trump administration’s Venezuela oil deal grants North American Blue Energy Partners, a private Venezuelan producer, ...

Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.

Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...