The U.S. spent over $8 billion in a failed effort to stop the Afghan drug trade. Will the Taliban’s DIY effort carry the day? In the past, Pakistan’s clandestine services have used profits ...

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 ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences for the Afghan rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives. Calls for international aid are growing louder. This week ...

KABUL, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Poppy cultivation and drug production have been banned in Afghanistan and are now nearly at zero, spokesman of the caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid said.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been destroyed, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov said in an interview with TASS.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May ...

The United Nations have said that the Taleban made an estimated US$100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan farmers growing poppy for the opium trade. Opium produced from the plants fuels the insurgency ...