Roland Besenval is a magician. With a few words and expansive hand gestures, the French archaeologist conjures a magnificent city from the millenniums-old ruins that crown a windswept plateau in ...

Afghanistan, a mosaic of tribal identities making cohesion extremely fraught as well as historically bloody, has around $9bn in assets held overseas. Most of these assets are frozen. Around 80 percent ...

The Pentagon dubbed Afghanistan ‘the Saudi Arabia of lithium.’ Now, it is American rivals that are angling to exploit those coveted reserves. Miners work to extract gemstones including kunzite and ...

Most wars have a turning point that either signals the road to victory or the ditch of defeat. In Vietnam, the 1968 Tet Offensive by communist troops against South Vietnamese and American forces and ...

Nicholas Ruhling is a member of the Young Leaders Program of The Heritage Foundation. One of President Joe Biden’s many foreign policy failures is once again rearing its ugly head. After two years ...

While the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan ended our longest war, the future for thousands of Afghan people is still in limbo. WPTV spoke to an Afghan family that was just granted asylum on the ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan sits on one of the largest mineral deposits in the region, the country's mines minister said, urging foreign firms to invest in oil, gas and iron ore sectors. A U.S.

A collection of long-lost Afghan gold treasures is going on exhibit at a Paris museum. The 22,000 pieces comprising the "Bactrian Gold" had been hidden in Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet invasion.

Officials in Afghanistan are desperately trying to save an archaeological treasure: an ancient city estimated more than 1,000 years old that was recently uncovered when thieves were arrested with ...