The most crucial part of the agreement — preventing either country’s territory from being used against the other — forms the core of the pact, a seed from which a full-fledged military alliance could easily emerge.

One way to foster stability in Afghanistan is for China, Iran, and Afghanistan to establish a joint security and defense framework and sign economic cooperation agreements.

In any conceivable scenario, the war—driven by the irreconcilable enmity between the two sides—will persist until one is utterly annihilated. Neither side will ever surrender.

Why would ISIS choose to carry out such a large-scale terrorist attack on Russian soil at this very moment when we know that nothing similar was attempted even in the midst of the war in Syria?