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

FARAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In fields less than a 10 minute drive from the intelligence headquarters of Afghanistan's remote western province of Farah, farmers are planting their first illegal ...

By 1999 Afghan opium production spiked to more than 5,000 ... Bakhtani was asked that year by the Karzai administration to help prepare a road map for a post-poppy Afghanistan.

Opium prices are soaring in Afghanistan following the Taliban's drug cultivation ban, threatening regional stability, new ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground ...

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 ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report.

The Taliban are strictly enforcing their drug ban for the third year in a row. As yet this has had surprisingly little impact on global opium and heroin markets. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an.