A farmer works in an illegal opium poppy field in Hopong, in Myanmar's Shan State, in a Feb. 3, 2019 file photo. YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty ...

A Taliban crackdown on opium farming appears to have bumped Afghanistan from its dubious rank as the world's biggest producer.

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report ...

WASHIR, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin but dismaying ...

Taliban eradicate a poppy field in Washir, district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, ... Today, Afghanistan's opium output is greater than all other opium-producing countries combined.

Taliban Outlaw Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan. The move will have far-reaching consequences for the many farmers who turned to the illicit crop as a brutal drought and economic crisis have ...

Taliban Outlaw Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan. The move will have far-reaching consequences for the many farmers who turned to the illicit crop as a brutal drought and economic crisis have ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are making good on an edict issued in April, banning the cultivation of poppies, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan efforts to stamp out opium poppy cultivation are failing because of high prices for the illicit crop, pushing farmers to grow 18 percent more in 2012 than last ...

FOB SHAMULZAI, Afghanistan (May 29, 2012) -- Afghan National Army and 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Soldiers, teamed up earlier this month to locate and destroy several acres of opium poppy fields.

C ould Afghanistan’s opium boom be over? Perhaps. According to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium cultivation has crashed in just one year, with prices at ...

LANGAR KHANA, Afghanistan -- When Shah Zada spotted the team of Afghan policemen surveying his field in April, the young farmer grabbed a fistful of cash and raced toward them. "I found the ...