The Taliban government is counting on Afghanistan’s bountiful gemstone and mineral resources after the loss of billions of dollars in international aid. By David Zucchino Photographs by Elise ...

A special report has detailed the increasing importance of colour gemstone sales in Afghanistan following the takeover of the Taliban three years ago.

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

The Pentagon dubbed Afghanistan ‘the Saudi Arabia of lithium.’ Now, it is American rivals that are angling to exploit those coveted reserves. Miners work to extract gemstones including kunzite ...

The scheme, as summarized by Insider, involved a gemstone trading company that operated “as a front to run a network of Afghan couriers who delivered money to Taliban fighters and other militant ...