DOHA, July 1. /TASS/. The United States should unblock about $10 billion in Afghan assets, while Europe should return $2.5 billion, which "were deposited in a Swiss bank in accounts for humanitarian ...

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Israel’s military strikes on Iran and now Tehran’s knee-jerk expulsion of Afghan residents have created a ...

In a popular parlance, peace is usually defined as the absence of war or to use AU's popular expression as silencing the guns. In reality however, the concept of peace goes far beyond the creation of ...

UNHCR reports that more than 122 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes due to war, violence, and persecution. While many arrive in unfamiliar places seeking protection, ...

Afghanistan possesses abundant natural resources, including energy, water, and wind. Overall, it could produce 23 gigawatts (GW) from hydro, 67 GW from wind, and a staggering 220 GW from solar ...

Over two years after the Biden administration abruptly pulled out of Afghanistan, China is sliding in with its eyes on the war-torn country’s natural resources. China is being welcomed with open ...

The prize in all this is access to Afghanistan's wealth of untapped mineral resources — as well as a market for Chinese goods. "The vast natural resources of Afghanistan, such as copper, lithium, or ...

Surveys estimating Afghanistan’s potential mineral resources to be worth more than $1 trillion generated a lot of headlines in 2010. But the accuracy of this estimate has recently been questioned.

With Turkmenistan’s dream to see construction of the trans-Afghan TAPI natural gas pipeline, the devil is in the details. Or the footnotes, to be more precise.

Afghanistan is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, ranging from semi-precious to precious stones, copper, oil, gold, and many more. According to the USGS ...