Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan men smoke drugs on the side of a highway in the outskirts of Kabul. The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at Mohammad ...

Damaged Poppy Crop To Benefit TalibanThe Afghanistan poppy crop is under siege from an aphid. As much as one-third of the country's considerable poppy crop may be destroyed, which is complicating U.S.

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in 2022 ...

Eight in 10 Canadians support "poppy for medicine" projects in Afghanistan — programs that involve growingpoppies for the manufacturing of opium used to make legal medications, an Ipsos Reid poll ...

In a revelation that reads like spy fiction, The Washington Post has uncovered a decade-long covert operation by the US Central Intelligence Agency to weaken Afghanistan's billion-dollar heroin ...

Agricultural plans are a critical part of the Taliban’s efforts to win the support of regional powers, diversify revenue streams, expand domestic control, and improve livelihoods across the country.

In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the ...