Afghanistan: The Taliban and China's Quest for Afghan Copper

Dec 2, 2016 | Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi, Deutsche Welle
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It sounds paradoxical: The Taliban want to support and encourage big infrastructure and development projects in Afghanistan. That's the bottom line of an unexpected statement the insurgent group published on its website on Tuesday, November 29. For more than a decade, the militant Islamists have been dominating the headlines because of their frequent bomb attacks on infrastructure in Afghanistan.