The Afghan interim government, which has banned poppy cultivation, processing of drugs, and drug trafficking, has vowed to fight the menace until the once-poppy-growing country becomes a drug-free ...

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 ...

Tajikistan’s Presidential Drug Control Agency (DCA) has not registered any decline in the volume of drug trafficking originating in neighboring Afghanistan, despite Afghan claims about a ban on ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Kabul, March 4 (IANS) Afghan Police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs and apprehended two alleged drug smugglers in north Afghanistan's Takhar province Monday night ...

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 ...

The DEA, with the help of American Special Forces and an Afghan counternarcotics, seized a whopping 20 tons of drugs in what officials have described as “the largest known seizure of heroin in ...

TASS/. Drug traffic from Afghanistan is subsiding but this problem still remains a serious threat to regional security, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with TASS.

Officials believe the Taliban, which finances its operations in part from the illegal drug trade, would have made about $14 million from the sale of the drugs. "The Afghan National Police Special ...