Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?

I n 1953, when President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to topple Iran’s elected prime minister, the American public was told a familiar story: Communism was creeping in, ...

UN warns 200,000 more Afghan children face acute malnutrition in 2026

Hundreds of thousands more children face acute malnutrition ‌in Afghanistan this year amid a hunger crisis exacerbated by ...

Drones Will Be Afghanistan’s Leading Weapon In Conflict With Pakistan

Afghanistan responded to recent Pakistani air strikes with focused drone attacks against military targets in Pakistan. This trend will continue as hostilities persist.
The New York Times

They Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear.

A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war. Mohammad IqbalCredit...Victor J. Blue for The New York ...
Outdoor Life

Indiana Lawmakers Move to Abolish Natural Resources Commission, Allowing Regulations to Be Made Without Oversight

Buried deep inside a 456-page bill that aims to reform or eliminate dozens of superfluous boards and commissions in Indiana is a stunner: inclusion of the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, the ...
Yahoo

The return of millions of Afghans from Pakistan and Iran pushes Afghanistan to the brink, UN warns

GENEVA (AP) — The return of millions of Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran is pushing Afghanistan to the brink, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, describing an unprecedented scale of ...
CNN

His family fled Afghanistan facing threats for supporting US troops. Now he sits in ICE custody at risk of being sent back

When Said Noor, a US Army veteran, picked up a phone call on December 2, he immediately knew something was wrong. His brother Lal was in Laredo, Texas, several hours south of their home in Austin, ...
UNHCR

UNHCR seeks support for solutions as 5.4 million Afghans return since late 2023

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to observe significant numbers of Afghans returning or being forced to return from neighbouring countries in extremely difficult circumstances. So far ...
Forbes

Investing In Nature’s Intangible Benefits: Assigning Economic Value To Protect Natural Resources

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The drying of the Great Salt Lake poses a catastrophic risk to its entire ecosystem and to ...
NPR

Pakistan-Afghanistan border closures paralyze trade along a key route

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — For more than three months, Afghan truck driver Anwar Zadran has been parked in Pakistan with a truck full of cement he was supposed to transport from a factory in Nowshera ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature

IUCN in Tanzania and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism Deepen Strategic Partnership to Advance Conservation and Sustainable Tourism

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Tanzania and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT) convened a high-level bilateral meeting to accelerate the implementation ...