Overdose deaths have remained steady, largely thanks to a regular, relatively pure supply of heroin shipped straight from Afghanistan. "I remember roughly a year or so after the Taliban came into ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs including 15 kg heroin and arrested 12 individuals on the charge of ...

Police will not allow anyone to produce or smuggle hashish, poppy, or the objects used in manufacturing heroin in the province, the official said. The Afghan interim government, which has banned ...

For the first time in decades, Myanmar has replaced Afghanistan as the world's largest opium and heroin producer. It would be natural to assume that this decline in opium and heroin production ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Kabul, March 4 (IANS ... drugs including 15 kg heroin and arrested 12 individuals on the charge of involvement in black business in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province ...

The Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization is receiving upwards of $1 billion in profit annually for deliveries of Afghan heroin, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN ...

(CNN)-- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reiterated the UK's commitment to the war in Afghanistan during a surprise visit to the country and warned that a "crucible of terrorism" existed in the ...

The DEA, with the help of American Special Forces and an Afghan counternarcotics, seized a whopping 20 tons of drugs in what ... The estimated street value was $60 million for 12.5 tons of morphine ...

"Despite the obvious progress, export of heroin from Afghanistan is still a serious challenge to security and stability, first of all, in Central Asia," he said. "To counter this threat ...

interested in exporting heroin to Russia and other countries leave the region," Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel. The United States completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in ...

Living in Afghanistan, the world's unrivalled producer of heroin, Faqirullah has no problem finding drugs to feed his habit. Living in Afghanistan, the world's unrivalled producer of heroin ...