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Eighty years after the Guadalcanal Campaign, Solomon Islands has once again drawn U.S. strategic interest.

Three years after the Modi government struck down Kashmir’s special status, the Valley has only grown more volatile.

The coastal cities of Bangkok, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh City battle a common existential threat.

War isn’t cheap. How has the National Unity Government funded itself – and its military efforts?

A year after the Taliban retook Afghanistan, economic collapse, human rights abuses, and terrorist threats loom large.

What can we expect from Ferdinand Marcos Jr.?

Not yet, despite the president’s repeated assertions otherwise.

What do people of the Pacific Islands think about China’s plans for the region and the U.S. response?

Extreme weather events, like India’s heatwaves, pose new challenges to green solutions.

Russia’s longstanding “imperial myth” holds that “Russia did not attack and colonize, but liberated and saved the colonized.”

“Pakistan and Sri Lanka have experienced the most political tumult in South Asia, and in both cases it’s been driven by economic stress.”

In northernmost Hokkaido, residents can easily see Russian-held islands that once belonged to Japan. Some still hold out hope for the islands’ return.