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 ...

Satellite images show that almost all opium poppy crops in ... On August 31, the last US troops left Kabul airport, ending the US Army's nearly 20-year presence in Afghanistan.

For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan ... in additional troops from the Pashtun heartland in the south. However, when the Taliban took action against poppy cultivation ...

and is now concentrated in northeastern provinces instead of in the Taliban strongholds of southern Afghanistan. In May, clashes between farmers and brigades sent to destroy their poppy fields ...

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 ...

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 ...

Report compiled by U.S. forces claims Pakistan security agency is assisting Taliban attacks against NATO forces Afghans bracing for return of Taliban when foreign troops withdraw in 2014 Taliban ...