The U.S. spent over $8 billion in a failed effort to stop the Afghan drug trade ... it disrupts the Taliban's major funding source: poppies. The rising prevalence of injecting drug users could ...

Before 2022, Afghanistan was by far the most important ... and typically do not grow in the same fields where poppies were previously grown, Bjelica says. It also takes years before such crops ...

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 ...

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 ...

In April 2022, Afghanistan’s de-facto authorities banned all cultivation of opium poppy under strict new laws. Opium is the essential ingredient for manufacturing the street drug heroin ...

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 ...

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 ...

The price of Afghan opium is skyrocketing ... That cereal is once again filling fields, as its germination cycle coincides with that of poppy. An analysis that focused on four provinces (Farah ...

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 ...

It was the story of Rob French, a former Royal Marine, deployed to Afghanistan in 2008. A display of Poppies laid out on the floor within Sheffield Cathedral for Remembrance at Sheffield Cathedral ...