KABUL, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces destroyed 19,761 hectares of land used for cultivating poppy and hashish across the country in 2025, deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat ...

UNODC survey found 85% of families in northern provinces unable to replace poppy income. Production fell 32% to 296 tonnes as ...

It has been over four years now since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan. But even now, we are still learning new things about the 20-year U.S. presence there. Last week, The Washington Post broke ...

LANGAR KHANA, Afghanistan -- When Shah Zada spotted the team of Afghan policemen surveying his field in April, the young farmer grabbed a fistful of cash and raced toward them. "I found the officer in ...

FOB SHAMULZAI, Afghanistan (May 29, 2012) -- Afghan National Army and 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Soldiers, teamed up earlier this month to locate and destroy several acres of opium poppy fields.

Bangkok, Thailand — Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government's crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In Zhari, a parched district northwest of Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar, 13 year-old Naqibullah is working in his father's poppy field, preparing for the main ...

Local Afghans work in their poppy field in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2014. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Dustin D. March, Marine Expeditionary Brigade Afghanistan) The United ...