News
19 August 2021

Taliban to reap $1trn mineral wealth

In:
Metals and Mining
Region:
Asia-Pacific

The Taliban have been handed a huge financial and geopolitical edge in relations with the world's biggest powers as the militant group seizes control of Afghanistan for a second time. In 2010, a report by US military experts and geologists estimated that Afghanistan, one of the world's...

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