Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report.

Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tonnes of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan ...

For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to assume that this decline in opium and heroin production ...

In Helmand, located in southern Afghanistan, the site of hundreds of murders nearly always carried out by the Taliban, one-fifth of the land under cultivation was devoted to opium poppy.

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tons of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the provincial police ...

The number of Afghanistan's 34 provinces that were free of opium poppies dropped from 14 last year to 13 this year, and every region except the southern one had an increase in opium production.

These are among the reasons Afghanistan's share of worldwide opium production skyrocketed from 19 percent in 1986 to 90 percent two decades later. The greatest factor, however, was the Taliban.

"The heroin issue hasn't diappeared. The cultivation scale of opium poppy in Afghanistan in 2014 grew to 250,000 hectares. Its harvest grew 30%," Viktor Ivanov told reporters. "And just a tiny ...

There is not a lot of that going on in Afghanistan anymore. (UNODC) MN Lawmakers Set Stage for Legal Weed Industry ... A clash with smugglers in the desert left three Brigade 444 members dead.

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 ...