During the long war in Afghanistan, the United States fought many visible battles — against the Taliban, against terrorism, and for control of a fragile nation. But behind the scenes, another secret ...

John F. Sopko, the Pentagon's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, gave a sobering assessment last week of the situation in the country 15 years after the fall of the Taliban.

(AP) In an April 15 story about a U.N. report on opium production in Afghanistan, The Associated Press miscalculated the price per pound for opium. The correct version is that prices went from about ...

Opium poppy buds at an illegal field in Hopong, a town in Myanmar's Shan State, in 2019 [File: Ye Aung Thu/AFP] Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing ...