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.

Afghanistan faces below-average rainfall this season, with experts warning of drought risks, water shortages, and threats to ...

The Taliban is flexing its hydrological muscles to build leverage against its neighbors. Afghanistan is often described as landlocked, but in hydrological terms, it is upstream of two major states.

Initial plans for the canal date back to the 1970s, but the Soviet invasion in 1979 triggered more than 40 years of civil unrest and violence in Afghanistan, putting Qoshtepa on long hold. It was not ...

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 ...