An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Parwiz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium ...

Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation fell to 10,200 hectares this year, one of the lowest levels recorded in the country's history, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said, but the Taliban ban has ...

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Sunday announced a ban on harvesting poppies, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from the plant that is needed for making heroin.

A vast field of towering white poppies sways gently in the breeze, silky petals sometimes tumbling to the ground, a visible marker of the resilience of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade. The sight ...

According to Sergey Shoigu, by 2023, areas under poppy cultivation in Afghanistan dropped 95%, from roughly 232,000 hectares to 10,800 MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. Drug production in Afghanistan surged ...

In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the ...

WASHINGTON (AP ) -- Afghanistan's president on Sunday sharply rejected reported U.S. claims that he had not worked strongly enough to curtail production of opium, the raw material for heroin. "We are ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 27 (UNHCR) - For a man with one of the toughest jobs in Afghanistan, and certainly one of its most closely scrutinized, Habibullah Qadiri has a relaxed manner that quickly ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw ...