Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake. By Azam ...

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 Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday.

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 ...

Myanmar produced an estimated 1,190 tons of opium — essential for producing heroin — this year, according to the latest report by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC). A farmer works ...

Opium farming in Afghanistan has dropped significantly following a ban imposed by the Taliban government in 2022, the United Nations said. The total area of land for growing opium poppy shrank 20% ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan grew to an all-time high in 2013 despite America spending more than $7 billion to fight it over the past decade, a U.S. report showed ...

* Cultivation of opium stable after falling from 2007-09 * Afghanistan produces more than entire global demand * Most opium grown in violent parts of country By Peter Graff KABUL, Feb 10 (Reuters) - ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ethnic Pa-O poppy farmer holds a harvested poppy ...

Despite more than $7 billion of American counter-narcotics spending, Afghanistan's opium trade has never been bigger, according to a U.S. government watchdog. A new report by the Special Inspector ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Controlling the opium trade in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of the drug, is a key element in the fight against Taliban militants. With thousands of U.S. Marines ...