Opinion: This commentary's author discusses how current debates about the military's role in stifling cartels bring to mind ...

After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and the fall of the Taliban in 2001, regional warlords once again cranked up opium production. No longer in power, the Taliban now saw opium as a way to ...

By contrast, the US spent billions of dollars trying to stop Afghanistan’s opium production and trafficking, “in the hope of cutting the Taliban’s source of funding”. But the group’s ...

The price of Afghan opium is skyrocketing ... senior expert on Afghanistan at the United States Institute of Peace, an independent agency. This is expected to have a negative effect on the ...

Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in Afghanistan ... troops left Kabul airport, ending the US Army's nearly 20-year presence in Afghanistan. In early September 2021, the ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report.

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

the Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Thursday. A statement of the ministry posted on its X account said that police discovered 27 kg of opium poppy in the western ...

"Barack Obama will strengthen the training and equipping of the Afghan army and police and increase Afghan participation in U.S. and NATO missions, so that there is more of an Afghan face on ...

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.