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Every year at the beginning of September, two beams of light rise from the southern tip of Manhattan, shooting four miles up into New York City’s sky. They mimic the shape of the World Trade Center and its Twin Towers, and for the week…

As debates on the rout in Afghanistan grow, it is vital that the US and its allies take a hard look at what went wrong in their strategy, lest the same mistakes are repeated again. The campaign has been a long, difficult and unprecedented…

During the Afshar Operation in 1993, when Afghanistan was ruled by competing warlords and after a decade of mass displacement and a complete collapse of the state, the late Tajik military commander Ahmad Shāh Masʿūd was among those involved…

Il ritiro degli USA dall’Afghanistan, da tempo annunciato ma effettuato in modo precipitoso, caotico e senza un valido coordinamento con gli alleati NATO, ha creato delle serie e comprensibili frizioni se non con tutti gli alleati europei,…

Quando il 4 febbraio del 2022 si terrà la cerimonia d’apertura dei Giochi olimpici invernali di Pechino, per la terza volta consecutiva la manifestazione sportiva più importante e seguita del mondo avrà luogo in Asia orientale. Nel 2018 i…