The US conducted airstrikes targeting opium processing labs in Afghanistan Sunday, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Michael Andrews tells CNN. The airstrikes were part of a joint US-Afghan operation ...

Zuber has a gaze that's a little too steady. Taken together with his bushy black beard, shaved head and tan shalwar kamiz--the pajama-like clothes that Afghan men wear--the effect is unsettling. He ...

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Zuber has a gaze that's a little too steady. Taken together with his bushy black beard, shaved head and tan shalwar kamiz--the pajamalike clothes that Afghan men wear--the effect is unsettling. He ...

WASHINGTON — Deferring to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Bush administration has backed off its plans to use aerial spraying to destroy Afghanistan’s poppy crop, at least for the time being, ...

As international donors gathered in Berlin this week to mull Afghanistan’s rebuilding needs, there was at least one part of the economy that had already returned to robust health — poppy production.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Taliban has earned up to $470 million (304 million pounds) from the Afghan opium trade this year alone, the United Nations said Thursday, money that is being used to finance the ...

Afghan men in an impoverished border settlement die trying to smuggle opium into Iran, leaving behind loved ones forced to survive on their own. By David Zucchino and Najim Rahim MIR ALI, Afghanistan ...

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