Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

Vienna, Mar. 12, (dpa/GNA) – The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, according to a report by the UN Office on Drugs and ...

Drug trafficking from Afghanistan has become a matter of concern for the regional countries. This money generated from drug trafficking is used for the training of terrorists. Al-Qaeda and TTP are the ...

TALUQAN, Afghanistan, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Police arrested an alleged drug smuggler and discovered 27 kg of opium in his possession in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province on Monday, Qari Zabihullah ...

Afghanistan’s stockpiles before the drop in opium cultivation may have been worth between US $4.6 to US $5.9 billion, or roughly 23-29 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2023. This ...

KABUL, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Asadullah ...

VIENNA — Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing "massive profits" to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations' drugs ...

VIENNA: Opium prices in Afghanistan are soaring and handing “massive profits” to criminal groups following a poppy cultivation ban imposed by the Taliban authorities, the United Nations ...

The release of Glezmann is part of what the Taliban has previously described as the “normalization” of ties between the U.S.