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 ...
American officials have quietly abandoned their hopes of reducing Afghanistan's opium production substantially this year and are now bracing for a harvest large enough to inundate the world's heroin ...
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 ...