If international drug- and law-enforcement officials are right, the Taliban might be hiding up to $3.2 billion worth of opium inside Afghanistan, potentially causing huge complications for NATO’s ...
The US conducted airstrikes targeting opium processing labs in Afghanistan Sunday, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Andrews tells CNN. The airstrikes were part of a joint US-Afghan operation ...
American officials have quietly abandoned their hopes of reducing Afghanistan's opium production substantially this year and are now bracing for a harvest large enough to inundate the world's heroin ...
Afghani poppy farmers are estimated to have lost over $1 billion in value or 95% of their opium supply since the Taliban outlawed opium production in April 2022, according to a new report from the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The Taliban has earned up to $470 million (304 million pounds) from the Afghan opium trade this year alone, the United Nations said Thursday, money that is being used to finance the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The Taliban has earned up to $470 million (304 million pounds) from the Afghan opium trade this year alone, the United Nations said Thursday, money that is being used to finance the ...