Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it rose by 19%, according to a report by the UNODC.

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a ...

In its latest edict, the Taliban banned women hearing each other’s voices in public. ...

Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government's top diplomat in Islamabad without ...

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Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maldives said in a statement on November 3 that the recent meeting between Mohamed Thoha, ...

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DODOMA Region currently leads the nation in drug use, especially heroin, followed closely by Dar es Salaam, the Drugs Control ...