Afghan police have destroyed around 1,000 acres of poppy fields in Samangan province, north of Afghanistan, over the past two days in a drive against illegal crops and illicit drugs, provincial police ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan — the country’s intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghan men smoke drugs on the side of a highway in the outskirts of Kabul. The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per ...

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 ...

An Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a poppy field in Badakhshan province in May, 2024 - Copyright AFP/File OMER ABRAR An Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a ...

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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at Mohammad ...