Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand. For a brief period after a Taliban ban on poppies in 2000 ...

In Helmand, located in southern Afghanistan, the site of hundreds of murders nearly always carried out by the Taliban, one-fifth of the land under cultivation was devoted to opium poppy.

A farmer in the southern province of Helmand, where most of the opium was produced until the ban, told Bjelica and her colleagues that he had never earned as much from opium or lived as well as ...

Last year, satellite images showed that opium production had dropped by 99.9 percent in Helmand and by almost 90 percent in Kandahar, once the heartland of cultivation. But in the provincial ...

When I embedded in neighboring Musa Qala district last summer, the steady stream of casualty reports in northern Helmand province had a couple of ... of Kandahar province and because it is a hub of ...

The police have seized more than 26 tons of illegal drugs during a series of operations in southern Afghanistan Helmand province and burned publicly ...

Kate Clark reports from Helmand where the Taleban insurgency is at its most fierce. After last year's record opium crop in Afghanistan, counter narcotics is a top priority for Britain, and the ...

The number of Afghanistan's 34 provinces that were free of opium poppies dropped from 14 last year to 13 this year, and every region except the southern one had an increase in opium production.

Helmand provided 70 percent of the world’s supply of opium and heroin. A farmer collected pitch from every bulb on his five to seven acres and earned $9,000 for the aggregate product.

Afghan police have apprehended nine alleged drug smugglers and discovered more than 40 kg of illegal drugs and objects used in manufacturing heroin ...