In April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin can be extracted - was strictly ...

Even as Badakhshan becomes poppy free, local commanders and government officials have allegedly reached power-sharing agreements over drug routes taking opium across the northern border into ...

With an original story by Tsukasa Monma and artwork by Shikako, the work faithfully captures the way the Manchukuo authorities competed against illicit drug dealers in the market of opium.

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 ...

The UNODC said opium production dramatically fell by 74% last year after the Taliban banned its production. Now the agency ...

In interviews with drug-war figures ranging from opium farmers to U.S. officials, Cowell unravels the complex political, economic, and diplomatic web that surrounds the heroin business.

Continued attention is given to the pioduction of this drug in the United States. Recent tests go far to show that the quality of the opium raised in several sections of the country is good.