According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

The arguments the Trump administration makes to justify dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development are, for ...

The release of Glezmann is part of what the Taliban has previously described as the “normalization” of ties between the U.S.

TALUQAN, Afghanistan, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Police arrested an alleged drug smuggler and discovered 27 kg of opium in his possession in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province on Monday, Qari Zabihullah ...

KABUL, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Counter-narcotics police discovered and destroyed more than 304 tons of illicit drugs during the year of 1403 in the Persian calendar ending on March 20, 2025 in southern ...

However, this success has come at a significant economic cost, as millions of Afghan farmers relied on opium cultivation for their livelihoods. Afghanistan’s inability to attract large-scale ...

George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January ...

Last week, 10 people were killed and three others wounded in various incidents across the country. Paktia police reported ...

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released ...

Glezmann, 66, was in Afghanistan as a tourist at the time of ... under U.S. narco-terrorism laws for securing heroin and opium that he knew was bound for the U.S. Unlike in that arrangement ...