According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

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 ...

Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev says critics of his policy towards Afghanistan have come to recognise its validity ...

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 ...

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

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January ...

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released ...

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 ...