The Taliban has been celebrating since the Islamist group that rules Afghanistan signed seven mining contracts promising to attract more than $6.5 billion in investments late last month. But experts ...

List of Afghan riches runs from gold and cobalt to lapis lazuli and copper. WASHINGTON June 14, 2010 -- U.S. geologists have concluded that Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries after 30 ...

Pentagon officials and American geologist have located an estimated $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, a finding that they belive could transform the country's flailing economy.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The pushback is a welcome corrective to some of the language in the Times story, like the claim in its lede, attributed to ...

China’s aggressive pursuit of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth represents a calculated geopolitical strategy that could reshape Central Asian economies and challenge Western influence in the region.

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.

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is eyeing Afghanistan's mineral wealth to help pay for a 16-year war and reconstruction efforts that have already cost $117 billion (90.89 billion pounds) ...

KABUL (Reuters) -China told Afghanistan on Wednesday that Beijing was keen on exploring and mining minerals in Afghanistan and wanted Kabul to formally join its Belt and Road Initiative, the Afghan ...

What connects a battlefield in Afghanistan, a closed-door meeting in Washington, and a single word from Donald Trump? At first glance, nothing. However, recent events suggest a deeper, far more ...

We don’t have to worry when someone is wrong – despite Richard Thaler’s recent Nobel Prize nibbling away at the margins of the point, we know that humans are ...