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The American effort to prepare Afghan security forces to combat widespread opium trafficking after the U.S. withdraws in 2014 has been crippled for over a month after a bureaucratic foul-up left those ...

People in Afghanistan are finding it harder to buy even basic medicine after the Taliban have shut off deliveries from ...

Photo gallery: Armies of scythe-wielding men are destroying opium poppies in Afghanistan through a U.S.-funded eradication program. But it's an uphill battle against powerful warlords allied with the ...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Afghan drug lords are smuggling more heroin through Iran to Europe, easing the burden on a traditional trafficking route through ex-Soviet Central Asia, Tajikistan's drug control ...

After three weeks of vigorous debates in the loya jirga, Afghans have succeeded in approving a new Constitution for their country. But whether Afghanistan has a presidential or parliamentary system, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal officials say an Afghan man linked to the Taliban who was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world has been convicted on charges of importing and distributing ...

When U.S. Special Forces soldiers conducted a series of raids last spring against major drug traffickers in Afghanistan's most violent province, they captured 39,000 pounds of raw opium and 300,000 ...

* U.S. to phase out poppy eradication * Wants to avoid questions over Afghan vote * Seeks more aid for Pakistan (Updates with quotes) By Phil Stewart and Daniel Flynn TRIESTE, Italy, June 27 (Reuters) ...

Afghanistan, portrayed as a victory in the U.S. war against terrorism, is a disaster in the war against drugs. Its production of heroin has soared over the past year, with the country becoming the ...