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 ...

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

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

A former soldier from Inverclyde is launching a charity to help fellow veterans suffering from the devastating impact of post traumatic ...

Director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and her niece Zahra in their aspirations to emancipate themselves from patriarchal traditions,” says a synopsis of the doc that is world premiering at IDFA.

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 ...

Qatar opened a snap poll Tuesday to decide whether to end its limited voting for legislative seats, a measure likely to pass and end its short-lived experiment ...

One Step Away is a roughly ten minute long documentary. The film, which was written and produced by SCAD alumni, had its West Coast premier on October 24 at the La Femme International Film Festival in ...

Women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are currently barred from most of the ordinary activities their counterparts elsewhere in the world see as their natural right – studying, working, going to a salon ...

Pakistan's military says its security forces have faced off with militants in two separate shootouts in the restive northwest ...

Putin was riveted to Biden/Harris declaration of the expectation of Russian invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. This is a date that will live in infamy as stupid or treasonous.