Canada attends COP29 in oil-rich Baku, where carbon pricing, the Taliban, and $1 trillion in climate aid dominate talks. As COP29 — the United Nations’ annual climate change summit — gets underway in Baku, […]
After 16 years of delays, a joint project to mine copper sees new momentum. But significant challenges remain. Three years after seizing power in Afghanistan, the cash-strapped Taliban are desperate to finally unlock the country’s […]
The proposed dam on the Kunar River, a crucial water source for Pakistan, lacks a bilateral water-sharing agreement between the two nations. Pakistani officials have expressed strong opposition to the project, considering it a hostile […]
On November 24, more than two years after Taliban fighters drove into Kabul to reclaim control over Afghanistan, a key, lasting outpost of the government they had overthrown shut down 1,000km (600 miles) away, in […]
The Taliban government of Afghanistan has asked for membership of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and will send a technical team to Beijing to negotiate access, its acting Commerce Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi said on […]
Washington, DC – United States diplomats will meet with Taliban representatives in Qatar this week, the US State Department has announced, in what will be rare, direct talks between Washington and the ruling Afghan group. […]
Via The Cradle, The Taliban’s governor of the Afghan central bank Hidayatullah Badri met with Chinese envoy Wang Yu this week to discuss banking ties and business, the bank’s spokesperson informed Reuters on Friday. “In […]
Taliban forces have killed six members of the ISIL armed group (ISIS) in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province during an overnight raid, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday. The raid comes as the Taliban rulers crack […]
Afghanistan is the last place anyone would expect a supercar to be built, but a team of 30 engineers at manufacturer ENTOP and Kabul’s Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute unveiled a black-colored sports car. The first […]
Many observers expected that in the wake of America and NATO’s somewhat frantic and ugly (to put it mildly) pullout from Afghanistan and Kabul airport in August 2021, it was only a matter of time […]
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