Author: Shubham Joshi

In recent days, the Taliban leader has increased his control over the country’s airports. Around 1,000 special forces from Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada’s protective unit have been deployed to various airports, including Kabul. These forces have been instructed not to allow any Taliban official to travel without permission from the Taliban leader’s office. Mullah Hibatullah seeks complete control over officials’ foreign trips and insists that his representative must be present during these visits to monitor the details of negotiations and meetings. The fighters of this unit are mostly from Helmand, Kandahar, and Uruzgan provinces and answer directly to Mullah Hibatullah. Meanwhile,…

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The geopolitics of energy is in full play in Europe. For years, Russia has been the biggest gas supplier in Europe. This even continued after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the year 2022.

But now, Ukraine has stopped the transport of Russian gas to Europe through its territory after its oil giant Naftogaz refused to renew the five-year transit deal with Russia’s Gazprom.

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