According to the report, cotton was cultivated in 17 provinces this year, showing a 12% increase in cotton cultivation compared to the previous year.

A diverse spread of new restaurants opening in the East Bay is keeping things interesting as the year starts. Oakland has new spots for upscale seafood and modern Afghan cuisine, while a donut shop ...

In Kabul, Afghanistan, where she grew up, Asia Jaji learned how to make mantu, or meat-filled dumplings, from her mother. Decades later, in a kitchen in America, where Jaji sought refuge after the ...

Thus Pippa Small has been working with arts foundation Turquoise Mountain (started by King Charles III and Hamid Karzi) in Kabul, Afghanistan to create and ... using Japanese glass seed beads to ...

The Afghan caretaker government, which had banned poppy cultivation, drug processing, and trafficking, has vowed to continue fighting the drug menace until the once-poppy-growing country became ...

The ruling states the Controlled Dangerous Substances Act "does not distinguish between seeds that have different levels of ...

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...

The Afghan caretaker government, which has outlawed poppy cultivation, drug production and drug trafficking, has vowed to fight the drug menace until the once-poppy-growing Afghanistan becomes a ...

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.

The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...

Police in Bamiyan banned the cultivation of poppy, drug processing, and drug trafficking in the province, the statement added. The Afghan caretaker government has stepped up its crackdown on ...