FOB SHAMULZAI, Afghanistan (May 29, 2012) -- Afghan National Army and 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Soldiers, teamed up earlier this month to locate and destroy several acres of opium poppy fields.

LANGAR KHANA, Afghanistan -- When Shah Zada spotted the team of Afghan policemen surveying his field in April, the young farmer grabbed a fistful of cash and raced toward them. "I found the officer in ...

It has been over four years now since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan. But even now, we are still learning new things about the 20-year U.S. presence there. Last week, The Washington Post broke ...

Bangkok, Thailand — Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government's crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report ...

Along a barren, dusty road on Afghanistan’s border with Iran, slingshots line the sand. For years, they have propelled drugs from western Nimroz province across the border to Iran’s Sistan and ...

As Afghanistan enforces a near-total poppy ban, Pakistan’s Balochistan emerges as the new centre of a resurgent opium economy ...

Local Afghans work in their poppy field in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2014. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Dustin D. March, Marine Expeditionary Brigade Afghanistan) The United ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has surged to a ten-year high, the United Nations reported on Wednesday, underscoring how ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In Zhari, a parched district northwest of Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar, 13 year-old Naqibullah is working in his father's poppy field, preparing for the main ...

For anyone living in America, the nightmarish shift in a contaminated drug supply is all too familiar. For roughly two decades, the United States has been gripped by an increasingly deadly overdose ...