Afghanistan is home to the world’s second biggest copper deposit, a crucial input in electric vehicle ... and Faryab provinces. The amount of oil reserves is estimated to be 87 million barrels. In ...

As Israeli attacks on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes, enter their sixth day, the deepening conflict is sparking fears ...

The history of Pakistan’s economy can be aptly summarised in three words: fragility not recognised. That since 1947, except ...

IT's an incontrovertible fact that, as the political scientist John Mearsheimer, co-author of the landmark book, "The Israel ...

Economic growth in oil exporters in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP ... and that the six-month London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) on U.S.-dollar deposits will ...

European stocks traded higher on Thursday ahead of an expected interest-rate cut by the European Central Bank. Investors have fully priced in a 25 basis-point cut, bringing the deposit rate to 2%, and ...

The Taliban leadership is seeking to leverage Afghanistan’s considerable mineral wealth in a comprehensive effort to gain ...

The hasty withdrawal of US, British and other NATO troops from Afghanistan after their almost 20 years of failed "war on terror" could become an inflection point toward a new era in world politics.

The Beijing meeting is part of China’s broader strategy of building a regional security architecture independent of Western influence. The tightening of cooperation with Pakistan and Afghanistan can ...

Astana's relationships are developing beyond traditional giants China and Russia, deputy foreign minister says ...

The USGS has identified 473 million barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Mowry Composite system across Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. Despite the Trump administration’s push to ...

Russia’s top oil producer, state-controlled Rosneft, has acquired the company that holds the license to operate and develop a giant rare earths deposit in Siberia, the largest such reserve in ...