Deadly clashes between local residents and a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan have left four people dead and five injured.

The Interior Ministry of the Taliban government confirmed on January 7 that ongoing clashes between officials of a contracting gold-mining company and residents of Chah Ab district in Takhar province ...

The largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan poses considerable risks to Afghans, and others living downstream in Central Asia.

Pakistan, Jan. 13 -- Recent accounts of Afghanistan's war driven economy point to an alarming reality. Control over mineral resources has become a means of coercion and financing for violent groups, ...

At least four were killed in a recent outbreak of violence between locals and a gold mining company allegedly backed by the Taliban. Tensions in Afghanistan’s Takhar province between locals and a gold ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Clashes between residents and operators of a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan left four people dead and five others injured, officials said Wednesday. Three ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Deadly clashes between local residents and operators of a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan left four people dead and five others injured, officials said Wednesday.

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