Afghanistan is building a 285-kilometre waterway at an accelerated pace to irrigate its drought-ridden northern regions.

Map showing the watersheds of the Amu Darya (orange ... volumes of water from the Amu Darya river. As concerns about the canal grew across Central Asia, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press said in ...

His 175-acre farm sits near the border of Afghanistan in the Uzbek city of Termez. This is where the grand Amu Darya River first enters Uzbekistan. KAMOLIDDIN KOSIMOV: (Through interpreter ...

The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan has confirmed that ...

designed to divert 20 percent of the water from the Amu Darya river across the parched plains of northern Afghanistan. The canal promises to be a game changer for villages like Ishfaq’s in ...

The water starved region of Central Asia is facing another threat to its beleaguered water supply -- the construction of a massive canal by the Taliban across the border in Afghanistan. KUOW is ...