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

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened bounties on the heads of Afghanistan's Taliban leaders, sharply escalating the tone as he said more Americans may be detained in the country than ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one ...

Two Americans have been released from Afghanistan ... rockets to attack U.S. military and Afghan civilian personnel” at an airfield in Jalalabad and “also sold opium and heroin that he ...

It said Muhammad had sought to acquire rockets for attacks on Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, and purchased opium meant to be converted into heroin and sent to the United States.

Ever since Waltz rejoined the U.S. Army in the aftermath of ... focusing on counternarcotics policy. Because Afghanistan produced most of the world’s opium, he wrote in his memoir, the country ...