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The geographic and social conditions that make Badakhshan difficult for the Taliban to control also make it difficult for any widespread unrest to spill out from the region. Unless things escalate ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Afghanistan's gold rush upends lives and landscapes
In Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed. Thousands of miners ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Afghanistan: Badakhshan Territory In Turmoil – Analysis
Badakhshan Province is in the midst of severe disorders, experiencing violent anti-Taliban rebellions, intense internal mutinies within the Taliban structure, and crises over the mining of natural ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Spate Of Attacks In Northern Afghanistan Pose Test For Taliban
During the 1990s, Afghanistan's vast and mountainous province of Badakhshan was a bastion of resistance to the rule of the Taliban. Now, the resource-rich region is again becoming a thorn on the side ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Is Badakhshan Becoming the Epicenter of Anti-Taliban Resistance?
On August 9, Taliban officials claimed to have captured 74 light and heavy weapons that were allegedly being smuggled in from Pakistan to support what they termed “subversive and destabilizing ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Northern Afghanistan Poses Some Challenges For Taliban – OpEd
Attacks across Badakhshan are puncturing the Taliban’s aura of invincibility, even if the armed resistance remains far from threatening its rule nationwide. Badakhshan, Afghanistan’s vast and ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Commerce: Afghanistan’s gold rush transforms lives and landscapes in Badakhshan
Gold mining boom brings jobs to Badakhshan, transforming mountains and communities alike Dubai: Afghanistan’s growing gold rush is transforming parts of the northeastern Badakhshan province, where ...