Helmand, October 16 (Daily Kiran) : Afghan police in Helmand province have made a significant drug bust, seizing 136 ...

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 ...

The contraction is unmistakable, although estimates differ. The European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) cites an Alcis estimate of 414 tonnes of Afghan opium production in 2025, compared with UNODC’s 296 ...

Counter-narcotics police seized 136 kg of opium-type drugs and detained three suspected smugglers in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Thursday, a statement from the provincial Directorate of ...

Afghanistan saw a drop in opium cultivation this year for the first time since 2009, a United Nations report said, citing drought conditions as a key reason for the decline. Poppy cultivation in ...

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 ...

Afghanistan's opium production has plummeted following a ban put into place by the Taliban in 2022, according to a new United Nations report. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that the ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

Afghan opium producers have had a bumper year with output soaring 87 percent as the area under poppy cultivation hit a record high, the latest annual survey said Wednesday. The price of opium — the ...

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.

When NATO alliance forces roll out of Afghanistan in 2014, the fogs of another war could continue billowing out from the country’s southern and western provinces. Opium poppy production is booming in ...