In Afghanistan, Taliban regime is exploiting its own people to sustain the illegal rule through extortion, seizure of ...

Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies. An Afghan boy works at a construction site behind a US Army soldier in Logar province, Afghanistan.

Recent accounts of Afghanistan’s war driven economy point to an alarming reality. Control over mineral resources has become a ...

Afghanistan is replete with untapped natural resources, with over 1,400 identified deposits. As per official figures, the country is rich in gold, copper, iron, coal, oil, and gas. It has abundant ...

In 2010, a report by US military experts and geologists estimated that Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, was sitting on nearly $1 trillion in mineral wealth, thanks to huge iron, ...