Politics

When they first captured Kabul back in 1996, the Taliban promised amnesty. It wasn’t a genuine offer then, and it isn’t now either. 

In a ruling, the court stated that Facebook’s citing of a privacy provision to withhold the records from Myanmar was “rich with irony.”

The promise came a week after the International Criminal Court announced a probe into the violent anti-drug campaign.

Insights from Ming Xia.

For all the focus on Japan’s ruling LDP, some of Japan’s most influential policy innovators aren’t found within government at all.

Charges against a political analyst were dropped on the urging of a Zoom-bombing prime minister.

Mayor Isko Moreno joins the crowded race to succeed President Rodrigo Duterte.

Like many of its neighbors, the nation has struggled to contain recent outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19.

The public-facing celebration “amounts to a personality cult hitherto unseen in contemporary Indian politics.”

The Taliban seek international support as they grapple with the daunting challenges of governing a nation shredded by four decades of conflict. But they aren’t in a rush to give women power.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged that Muslims are cornering most of the state-subsidized food-grain rations.