COLUMN. The Taliban has only been able to curb opium production in the country because of the regime's deeply repressive ...

President Richard Nixon launched a “war on drugs” in 1971. The campaign against the vice of drug addiction was in apostolic succession to the prohibition amendment and Savonarola’s bonfire of the ...

FARAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In fields less than a 10-minute drive from the intelligence headquarters of Afghanistan's remote western province of Farah, farmers are planting their first illegal ...

Afghanistan saw a drop in opium cultivation last year for the first time since 2009. Afghanistan saw a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year because of bumper harvests, collapsing eradication ...

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Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan decreased 19 percent in 2015, compared to the previous year, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released Oct. 14 by the Afghan Ministry of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The amount of opium harvested in Afghanistan has fallen from a 2007 cultivation record, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations. The U.N.