Police believe the discovery of 60,000 plants being grown in a field behind a rural Edmonton home is the second largest opium ...

During the long war in Afghanistan, the United States fought many visible battles — against the Taliban, against terrorism, ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of climate ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at Mohammad ...

Taliban forces work to destroy a poppy field in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, in May 2024. [VOA] Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was down sharply last year, according to the United Nations ...

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GHANIKHEL, Afghanistan -- At the entrance to this thriving village in Nangahar province is an old, bent metal sign that reads: "Drug abuse is the greatest evil of society. Let us save ourselves, our ...

NANGARHAR, Afghanistan -- There is simply no other crop that pays as much as opium poppies. That is why people in this poverty-stricken region grow -- and will continue to grow -- the flowers. In my ...

Though U.S. Park and Forest Service Rangers are getting used to finding meth labs in places such as Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest, and pot farms everywhere from Kentucky’s Daniel Boone ...

UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before Taliban’s narcotics ban.