Vienna, Mar. 12, (dpa/GNA) – 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 ...

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.

The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Toiling in what is the opium capital of the world, farmers in southern Afghanistan are swapping out their poppy plants for wheat crops. The farmers are ...

UNODC announced last year that Myanmar had overtaken Afghanistan to become the world’s top opium producer, saying a ban imposed by the ruling Taliban after its 2021 takeover led to a 95% ...

KABUL, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Personnel of Afghan law enforcing agencies have discovered over 350 kg of illicit drugs, including 10 kg of heroin, 16 kg of opium poppy, and 330 kg of materials used in ...

The growing of opium poppies in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar is predicted to be down for the second year running. But a UN drugs forecast released on Monday says that poppy growing ...

KABUL, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Police have arrested a drug smuggler and discovered 9 kg of hashish in his possession in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, provincial police spokesman Tahir Ehrar said ...

It has become a corrupt "narco state," with opium trade providing nearly half of the country's gross national product, Tanner says. There are about 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but there are ...

TASS/. The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan has risen by 7% reaching a record high in 2014, Afghan media reported on Wednesday citing UN experts. The total area of the cultivation has ...

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