The first round of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Bilateral Dialogue was held in Islamabad on June 7-8, 2015 under the umbrella theme of  the “Consolidating the Gains: Exploring Avenues and Methodologies to Pursue Joint Objectives”.

Regional Peace Institute (RPI) organized the Dialogue in collaboration with the Afghan Institute for Strategi...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) has commenced its first research project in security studies to explore the conception of security in Persian/Sufi sources & the possibility of synergizing Persian/Sufi approaches with contemporary conceptions of security. The two-years old project aims to articulate a conception of security bas...

An Iranian delegation, led by Dr Zahrani, director general of Iran’s Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) visited Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS). During the luncheon meeting, the Iranian delegation expressed its desire to establish working relations with the AISS in areas of mutual interests . Reiterating AISS...

Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies held a 3-day conference in cooperation with National Endowment for Democracy (NED) from 4-6 May 2015 at the AISS office in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The conference was aimed at identifying the challenges faced by the Afghan civil society organizations in the coming decade of development and explore sol...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies is honored and welcomes Gen. Abdul Hadi Khaled as “Researcher ” to AISS team. He is in charge of AISS’ research project on “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...