Afghanistan also dominates the global opium and heroin business, which provided the sole income for many poor farmers https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/profits-poppy-afghanistans-illegal …
Iran braces for refugee influx from Afghanistan
With Taliban takeover, fearing reprisal, Afghan soldiers and civilians are rushing to seek refuge in Iran – Anadolu Agency …
Iran braces for refugee influx from Afghanistan
With Taliban takeover, fearing reprisal, Afghan soldiers and civilians are rushing to seek refuge in Iran – Anadolu Agency …
Afghanistan Has More Than $1 Trillion of Natural Resources and China Wants a Piece of It. What to Know.
A U.S. report estimated $1 trillion-plus of valuable metals and stones beneath Afghan soil. China has signaled its willingness to do business in the new Afghanistan.
Vice President Harris Heads To Vietnam As The Shadow Of Afghanistan Looms
The long-planned trip is now complicated by the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is drawing comparisons to the fall of Saigon in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
The Latest: Pakistan state carrier resumes flights to Kabul
Pakistan’s state-run airline has resumed special flights for Kabul, in order to evacuate Pakistanis and foreigners stranded in Afghanistan …
Afghanistan: Taliban face financial squeeze from West
With military retaliation against the Taliban ruled out, the West is turning to financial reprisals. The US has frozen Afghanistan’s central bank assets and global development aid is halted.
Afghanistan: Taliban face financial squeeze from West
With military retaliation against the Taliban ruled out, the West is turning to financial reprisals. The US has frozen Afghanistan’s central bank assets and global development aid is halted.
Bergman talks Afghanistan, infrastructure, election
The management of the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has been a “national embarrassment,” U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman said during an interview Wednesday. Bergman, R-Watersmeet, spoke during a visit …
The Taliban plans to ban drugs in Afghanistan. That could change the world for the worse
After the Taliban’s opium ban in the early 2000s, a heroin drought in Estonia led underworld chemists to start manufacturing fentanyl …