The U.S. government estimates that at least $1 trillion in mineral deposits lie beneath Afghanistan’s rugged landscape. The country is rich in copper, gold, zinc, chromite, cobalt, lithium and ...

One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...

Its rugged mountains and remote valleys make ... But it is not just a case of geography. Afghanistan is composed of several different ethnic groups, Tajiks, and Hazaras, for example-and all ...