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The U.S. sank an Iranian warship, which was returning home from an India-hosted exercise, off the Sri Lankan coast yesterday. India’s silence in response is deafening.

Saudi Arabia, wary of further escalation, is unlikely to press Pakistan to deploy troops or join the conflict at this stage.

The possibility of expansion, into Asia and elsewhere, is no longer theoretical.

Jakarta’s participation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s initiative has drawn widespread criticism, particularly from conservative Islamic groups.

Scenes from the political and military front lines of last year's undeclared war.

The flat tone of the bloc's statements belies the severe disruptions that the war could have on Southeast Asia's export-dependent economies.

In its latest report, USCIRF has urged the Trump administration to finally make designations of egregious violators of religious freedoms.

Insights from Martin Catarata.

The two sides sealed a $1.9 billion commercial deal for long term supply of uranium to support India’s civilian nuclear energy program.

Mongolia is trying to develop its critical minerals sector to diversify mining operations. But it's been a slow process thus far.

Dhaka’s real challenge is to convert political change into economic credibility amid mounting external shocks.

An essay contest for public school children was a propaganda exercise in disguise, with Japan and Taiwan as the targets.

The Lai administration immediately sought to align itself with the United States, while debate in Taiwan rages over what the strikes mean for cross-strait dynamics.

According to RFE/RL's Uzbek Service, Ismail Jahongirov – sentenced last year to 23 years in prison – died by suicide while in the prison’s solitary confinement unit.

"If this was a conservative triumph, it was one built not on ideology but on the disciplined mobilization of patronage networks that had been consolidating for years."

Jakarta has made numerous concessions in the agreement but there is little evidence of reciprocity from Washington.

In any scenario where Taiwan loses its democratic sovereignty, Taiwanese women lose first and lose most.

As conflict unfurls across the Middle East, Asian countries – U.S. friends and foes alike – are watching carefully.

The institutional machinery driving the Beijing summit is already too far advanced to reverse, and the Iran crisis has made holding it more urgent, not less.

Legal, political, and sovereign constraints make the militarization of the Chinese-operated Port of Chancay far less plausible than critics suggest.