It's been called the Nile of Central Asia. The Amu Darya River flows for thousands of miles through four countries and eventually spills into the shrinking Aral Sea. Now a canal being built by the ...

The ruling Taliban has signed a deal with a Chinese company to extract oil from northern Afghanistan’s Amu Darya basin as the radical Islamist group attempts to bolster the South Asian nation’s ...

Irrigating northern Afghanistan has been a priority for Kabul since Afghanistan’s first president, Mohammad Daud Khan, planned the canal in the 1970s. The Taliban is working on completing a canal that ...

Initial plans for the canal date back to the 1970s, but the Soviet invasion in 1979 triggered more than 40 years of civil unrest and violence in Afghanistan, putting Qoshtepa on long hold. It was not ...

Devoting over 4,000 workers and numerous capital assets to the project, the Taliban clearly have an interest in seeing this canal completed, regardless of the consequences to the downstream states.

Roza Otunbaeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, underscores that the country has been left out of global climate talks since the 2021 Taliban takeover, despite its vulnerability to ...

The water starved region of Central Asia is facing another threat to its beleaguered water supply — the construction of a massive canal by the Taliban across the border in Afghanistan. It's been ...