The masked gunmen of Jaish al-Adl are probably not the kind of people Donald Trump had in mind when he talked about “regime ...

In a significant crackdown on drug trafficking in Chittorgarh, police seized 395 kilograms of illegal opium poppy powder during a controlled operation. A Fortuner car was abandoned by the ...

Germany recorded more than 2,000 deaths from illegal drugs in 2024 for the second consecutive year, official figures showed on Monday, as experts warned of an uptake in dangerous synthetic opioids. A ...

The world drug market has never been so globalised, active and diverse, according to the United Nations – which marks International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on Thursday. RFI ...

The four-acre poppy field at Pleasant Hill Blueberry Farm was planted as a memorial, with the first seeds placed in 2018.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at ...

More than a century after “In Flanders Fields,” the poppy still symbolizes Memorial Day and is used to honor our fallen military heroes.

Afghanistan: Opium prices approach historic peaks, crime syndicates benefit Sustainable economic alternatives are urgently needed to discourage them from returning to poppy cultivation, particularly ...

Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these fields, and Myanmar again ranks as the world’s biggest exporter of the raw material to make heroin and other opiates.

U.N. experts say there has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, but warn there are still strong ...