Afghanistan battles deforestation with a new "Green Force" as poverty and past conflict hinder forest recovery.

Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early yesterday, killing at least five people, while Israel claimed it had ...

rocket launchers and automatic weapons. Senior Taliban leaders criticized the previous education system and curriculum. In the last decade before the Taliban regained power, the Ministry of ...

Landspace performs 9-engine static fire test for reusable Zhuque-3 rocket  Chinese launch startup Landspace carried out a ...

Israel hit more targets in Tehran and Iranian missiles fired at Israel killed at least 10, as the conflict entered a third ...

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This, even though the ruling Taliban have historically had tense relations with most of these countries, and currently have taut ties with Pakistan, a one-time ally with whom trust is at an all ...

KABUL: Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan’s halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens to tell their version of the 20-year conflict with Western ...

The country has since become a case study in abandonment: a collapsed republic, frozen reserves, Taliban consolidation, eroding civil liberties, and widespread hunger, repression, and isolation.

The US Air Force is investing in a transport system that could one day deliver 100 tonnes for cargo or personnel by rocket to any spot on Earth in under 90 minutes. Unimaginatively called Rocket ...

The Zhuque-2E is a stepping stone toward a much larger rocket Landspace is developing called the Zhuque-3, a stainless steel launcher with a reusable first stage booster that, at least outwardly ...

Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company will attempt to send its famous Falcon 9 rocket on a trip to deploy another batch of internet-beaming Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.