Mir Hotak, Afghanistan, April 15, 2009: Fields of opium poppy stretch in every direction as soldiers with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, conduct a patrol near the village of Mir ...

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 ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production ...

In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop. It has been ...

Kabul's opium throne has shifted east. The Taliban's 2022 ban on poppy farming in Afghanistan has driven cultivation across the border, with neighbouring Pakistan overtaking it as the world's new ...

(For more on Afghanistan, click on [nAFPAK]) (In para 20, corrects to baker sold bread to Afghan soldiers, not U.S. Marines) By Mark Chisholm MARJAH, Afghanistan, April 15 (Reuters) - With heavy ...

GARMSER, AFGHANISTAN — Gunfire zings in near Sgt. Dan Linas' patrol, pinning his squad down against a dirt berm. The Marines peer across the field to their left, at three mud huts and a grove of trees ...