Salma Niazi is an Afghan journalist focusing on regional affairs, diplomacy, and socio-political issues. She is a regular contributor to Afghan Times, where she writes on developments shaping Afghanistan and the wider region.
On September 12–13, 2026, India will take centre stage as host of the 18th BRICS Summit, bringing together an increasingly consequential gathering of the Global South. The small five-member group that India
Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Europe’s terrorist threat has changed fundamentally. The era of large, hierarchically organised operations remains part of the history of modern terrorism, but the contemporary threat is increasingly defined by decentralised initiative, digital
A U.S. military judge has set June 5, 2028, as the new trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the accused mastermind of the
Israel’s offensive to seize Ali al-Taher Ridge, a major Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, threatens to reverberate far beyond the battlefield. According to an
The street market in the Afghan border town of Torkham in Nangarhar province has “gone silent.” Anxiety about the future is rising as trade halts and incomes dry up, a local shopkeeper
More
