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 ...

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A slew of senior politicians signed up on Sunday as candidates for Afghanistan's presidential election next year, where they will face off against warlords, tribal leaders and the incumbent leader's ...

Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside ...

Men praying on a small patch of grass last year in Shagai, in Afghanistan’s Bakwa District. The district became a booming hub of production and trade for opium, heroin and methamphetamines.

This stance does nothing to improve the situation of Afghan women and prevents the international ... citing their efforts against ISIS-K and the destruction of opium fields: “[The international ...

So, when the advancing Taliban offered Afghan soldiers a choice — their lives for their weapons — they lay down arms. The regions plundered by Mr. Omar and other warlords were active ...