Poppy cultivation and drug production have been banned in Afghanistan and are now nearly at zero spokesman of the caretaker government Zabihullah Muj ...

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 ...

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.

Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tonnes of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan ...

Police in eastern Afghanistan Nangarhar province have rounded up 21 drug-addicted people recently and sent them to a rehabilitation center provincial ...

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 ...

The White House said President Joe Biden spoke to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2022 and promised to do everything possible to bring them home as he ...

Gen. Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy fields. "After I finished one of the ...

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 ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tons of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the provincial police ...

Police in Bamiyan banned the cultivation of poppy, drug processing, and drug trafficking in the province, the statement added. The Afghan caretaker government has vowed to fight the menace of ...