Landmines and other explosives left behind after decades of war killed at least 92 people and injured 379 others in ...

Kabul: At least 87 people were killed and 333 others injured in 193 incidents involving unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan ...

GOSHTA: A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is ...

Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers.

In the sienna-colored curves of Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountains, one of the most rugged and lawless regions in the world, a cavernous, grooved crater gouged out from a hillside shines in the winter ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Clashes between residents and operators of a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan left four people dead and five others injured, officials said Wednesday. Three residents ...

KABUL — Rescue teams in northern Afghanistan searched a collapsed mine for bodies Sunday after at least 28 miners were confirmed dead and officials said no more survivors were trapped underground. The ...

Four miners in northern Afghanistan were suffocated to death by fumes this week while digging for gemstones, a local official told AFP on Saturday. The Barron's news department was not involved in the ...

Afghanistan's rocky landscape contains underground minerals estimated to be worth a trillion dollars - Copyright AFP Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN Afghanistan's rocky landscape ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are looking to capitalise on the country's rich mineral resources by courting local and foreign investors and securing a crucial revenue stream -- though experts ...

"In a place like Afghanistan, where there's very little experience with mining and very few, if any, regulations for mining, that's an advantage to companies coming in," said geophysicist David ...