KABUL, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have apprehended nine alleged drug smugglers and discovered more than 40 kg of illegal drugs and objects used in manufacturing heroin from their possessions, ...

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

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 ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The police have seized more than 26 tons of illegal drugs during a series of operations in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province and burned publicly, ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing intense scrutiny after a damning report revealed ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

and production decreased by 8% to 995 metric tons due to a 4% decline in opium yield. UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan to become the world’s top opium producer ...

Drug trafficking from Afghanistan has become a matter of concern for the regional countries. This money generated from drug trafficking is used for the training of terrorists. Al-Qaeda and TTP are the ...

Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tonnes of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the provincial police office said in a statement on Wednesday.

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 ...

and production decreased by 8% to 995 metric tons due to a 4% decline in opium yield. UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan to become the world’s top opium producer ...