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China's largest oil company is due to start commercial production of crude oil in Afghanistan shortly, heralding a resource boom that could transform the country's economy over the next decade, the country's mining minister said.Extraction of metals and oil could account for 45% of Afghanistan's gross domestic product by 2024, Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani told The Wall Street Journal Wednesday on the margins of an investment and mining conference where he is meeting potential investors.Recent surveys have shown Afghanistan to be endowed with rich unexploited assets, but its security situation could be a sticking point for some investors.Mr. Shahrani's comments follow President Hamid Karzai's accusations this month of U.S. collusion with the Taliban in the war-hit country, at a time when the government is trying to negotiate how many, if any, U.S. and NATO forces will remain after their mandate ends next year.Nearly all of Afghanistan's recoverable mineral resources, estimated ...
FBN’s Imus experts debate whether the government should use drones to kill terrorists even if they are American citizens.
India's federal cabinet Thursday approved the formation of a company that will build a multi-billion-dollar trans-Afghanistan pipeline project to bring in natural ga...
FNC's Martha MacCallum on the latest on the royal family.
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama starts his second term, the world's business and political elite pines for greater American engagement to ta...
“The Coming Collapse of China” author Gordon Chang on the dispute between China and Japan over a group of islands.
FNC national security analyst KT McFarland on the hostage crisis in Algeria.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton on the Administration’s strategy in Afghanistan .
Former CIA Operative Mike Baker on the need to focus on national security and atrocities happening around the world.
FBN’s Gerri Willis recommends who Time Magazine should have chosen as its “Person of the Year.”
“The Outpost” author Jake Tapper on researching his book on the 2009 attack on the American Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan and the soldiers who fought in the battle.
ABC News’s Jake Tapper on his new book, “The Outpost”.
Drexel Hamilton CFO Cauldon Quinn on efforts to help disabled veterans find jobs in the financial industry.
The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and ot...
Bernard McGuirk, Deirdre Imus , Tony Powell and Alan Colmes have a Mensa meeting.
National-security analyst KT McFarland on the growing threats from North Korea and comments from the Afghanistan President about the U.S. and the Taliban .
Former CIA Operative Michael Scheuer on Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s accusations against the U.S. government.
Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haass on growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea and America’s relationship with Afghanistan .
Afghanistan's appetite for mobile technology and the associated need for digital security is transforming the country's communication agenda, attracting overseas inv...
Daily Beast Columnist Eli Lake and FNC national security analyst KT McFarland on concerns over Iran’s nuclear program.
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