Lashkar Gah is the capital of the volatile province that alone grows half of Afghanistan's opium poppy. Cultivation here grew by 34 percent over last year. On Fridays, hundreds of men gather at the ...

Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation fell to 10,200 hectares this year, one of the lowest levels recorded in the country's history, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said, but the Taliban ban has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opium farming in Afghanistan has dropped significantly following a ban imposed by the Taliban government in 2022, the United Nations said. The total area of land for growing opium poppy shrank 20% ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Cultivation of opium poppies decreased in Afghanistan this year for the first time since 2001, a success that saw one in every five farmers abandon the drug-producing plant for legal ...

In 1979, the year of the Soviet invasion, Afghanistan had no significant production of opium. But that was soon to change: The mujahedeen rebels who opposed the Red Army used opium and heroin as a ...

Despite more than $7 billion of American counter-narcotics spending, Afghanistan's opium trade has never been bigger, according to a U.S. government watchdog. A new report by the Special Inspector ...

Afghans pushed out of work by the coronavirus pandemic after businesses and schools were shuttered have turned to opium cultivation for cash during this year's poppy harvest. Afghanistan has long been ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan rose a "staggering" 59 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drug chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big ...

The European Parliament has proposed turning Afghanistan’s massive poppy crop into legal opium-based pain-killers in order to enhance stability and reduce poverty in the conflict-torn country. On ...