EDEN — A 37-year-old local man faces charges for trafficking opium and heroin and possession of cocaine and pot, according to a Friday news release from the Eden Police Department. The EPD’s ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January ...

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released ...

The price of opium in Afghanistan soared to $750 per kilogram in 2024, marking a tenfold increase compared to the $75 per kilogram price in 2022 before the country’s de facto authorities imposed a ...

Prices for opium in Afghanistan skyrocketed to $750 per kg in 2024, a tenfold increase from $75 for the same amount in 2022 before the Taliban imposed a drugs ban, according to a report released by ...

The UN's report estimated Afghanistan's opium stockpiles at approximately 13,200 tons by the end of 2022, enough to meet demand for Afghanistan's opium until 2027. Ghada Waly, Executive Director ...

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...