KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Police have destroyed poppy farms on 13 acres of land in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Assadullah Jamshid said ...

KHOST, Afghanistan, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have arrested 13 suspects involved in drug smuggling and seized illicit drugs from their possessions in east Afghanistan's Khost province, an ...

Afghan police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs and apprehended two alleged drug smugglers in north ...

The centre of poppy cultivation has also shifted, the agency noted, and is now concentrated in northeastern provinces instead ...

Tracing the ebbs and flows of Afghanistan’s narco-economy, which reflects shifting Taliban priorities and global conditions.

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences for the Afghan rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives. Calls for international aid are growing louder. This week ...

poppy cultivation has practically come to a standstill. For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to ...

Afghan police discovered more than 50 kg of illicit drugs and apprehended two alleged drug smugglers in western Afghanistan Nimroz province, the provincial director for counter-narcotics department ...

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 ...