The Taliban claims opium poppy cultivation was stopped and the flow of illegal drugs halted when it was last in power in Afghanistan. But although there was a sharp drop in 2001 - when it was last ...

Opium production in Afghanistan has plummeted since the Taliban banned cultivation of the poppy plant, according to a UN report published on Sunday. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers pledged to wipe ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. When the Taliban announced their ...

Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May 2024. [VOA] Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United ...

KABUL, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have arrested 20 drug smugglers and 26 criminal suspects across the country, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Saturday.

"According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, opium poppy cultivation and opium production in Afghanistan has decreased by 95%, yet opioids, such as heroin and opium, as well as Afghan-made ...

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.

Amitav Ghosh creates a rich, provocative, and eye-opening portrait of the rise of the opium trade. Harvesting opium poppies. There is not a lot of that going on in Afghanistan anymore. (UNODC) MN ...

In Afghanistan, where huge families are the norm, one of the biggest expenses for households is a dowry to marry off daughters. "We could pay it with opium, but not with corn and beans," he says.

Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east through Afghanistan and Pakistan to Myanmar. Opium also is grown in Latin ...