Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The pushback is a welcome corrective to some of the language in the Times story, like the claim in its lede, attributed to ...

The Taliban has been celebrating since the Islamist group that rules Afghanistan signed seven mining contracts promising to attract more than $6.5 billion in investments late last month. But experts ...

U.S. geologists have discovered vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan, possibly amounting to $1 trillion, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said today. Waheed Omar told reporters the findings were made ...

Afghanistan is sitting on an estimated $1 trillion worth of untapped mineral resources, according to U.S. and UN assessments. Since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, around 200 mining contracts ...