Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water.

A new report from the Center for the National Interest, “Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal and Water Security in Central Asia,” underscores the main technical, financial, and legal challenges confronting ...

Over four decades of war, Afghanistan wielded limited control over five major river basins that flow across its borders in all directions into downstream neighbouring ...

In late May, shots were exchanged by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Taliban near a border post in Iran’s Southwest Nimroz province. Each side blamed the other for starting the gunfight that ...

A wind farm in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, June 11, 2009. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Wilkinson (US State Department). Afghanistan’s heavy reliance on international aid — in 2021 foreign aid ...

Afghanistan is building a 285-kilometre waterway at an accelerated pace to irrigate its drought-ridden northern regions. Central Asian states maintain that decisions regarding transboundary water use ...