An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Parwiz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium ...
In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the ...
Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation fell to 10,200 hectares this year, one of the lowest levels recorded in the country's history, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said, but the Taliban ban has ...
Opium farming in Afghanistan has dropped significantly following a ban imposed by the Taliban government in 2022, the United Nations said. The total area of land for growing opium poppy shrank 20% ...
It has been over four years now since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan. But even now, we are still learning new things about the 20-year U.S. presence there. Last week, The Washington Post broke ...
Local Afghans work in their poppy field in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2014. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Dustin D. March, Marine Expeditionary Brigade Afghanistan) The United ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Springtime is on the way and already hundreds of farmers are tending pale green shoots of Afghanistan's chief crop and economic mainstay: opium poppies. It looks to be a bumper ...
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