FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): As many as 2,368 work permits have been issued in northeastern Badakhshan province during the ongoing ...

The U.S. airstrikes in Badakhshan are likely to please China, which may be helping the Afghans build a base in the region. Recent fighting across the border in Afghanistan has made authorities ...

Two miners have been killed after a hill collapsed on them while performing gold panning in Shahr-e-Bozorg district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an . . .

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A gold miner lost his life, and two others were injured as a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Wednesday, ...

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is operating training camps in four Afghan provinces, while Jamaat Ansarullah is ...

AYBAK, Afghanistan, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Three coal miners lost their lives due to the methane gas explosion inside a coal mine in northern Afghanistan's Samangan province on Wednesday, a statement ...

In Afghanistan, the deputy governor Badakhshan province Nissar Ahmad Ahmadi was killed in a car bomb blast on Tuesday. The provincial spokesperson said driver of the deputy governor was also killed ...

Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ancient mines in Sar-e-Sang have been producing the brilliant blue stone ...

A report submitted to the United Nations Security Council by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has ...

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two gold miners lost their lives due to the landslide in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar ...

Four years ago, Brig. Gen. Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy fields.

The natural disaster took place in Anqarchaq village of Pasawand district on Sunday, killing three passersby who were going to the southern Helmand province, the official added. Police personnel have ...