Iran’s nuclear agreement has created a political and geostrategic earthquake in the Middle East and beyond, including accelerating the reform movement within Iran andempowering democratic constituencies in the Islamic world.

Liberated from external containment and internal suppression, Iran could now help itself, the region and the wi...

Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) organized a two-day training workshop for its upcoming project, “Radicalization Trends among Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

The project aims to gauge the level of radical views among the Afghan security personnel and to understand the underlying factors of green on blue attacks, k...

Beginning June 23, all of the main state bodies in Afghanistan will lose their constitutional basis. The Afghan Parliament’s term will end on June 22 with no new parliament in line to replace it due to the government’s failure to hold elections this past April. The executive branch, led by the national unity government, also lacks a constitutio...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) was pleased to host Indian Ambassador, H.E. Amar Sinha, in Kabul as part of the “High Tea with the Ambassador” lecture series.

Government officials, members of parliament, academia as well as civil society activists attended the event.

AISS Director, Dr. Davood Moradian in hi...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) singed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Pakistan’s Regional Peace Institute (RPI). The MoC provides a framework of cooperation between the two research institutes for conducting joint projects, including, publication, conferences and public consultation at bilateral and multilateral levels...