Authorities uncover poppy cultivation in Dera Ismail Khan linked to terrorism financing. Officials urge urgent action to dismantle the drug-terrorism network.

KABUL, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces have apprehended nine people on the charge of illegal drug smuggling and sales and uncovered a quantity of illicit drugs in three provinces, the ...

Afghan counter-narcotics police destroyed a drug processing lab and arrested one suspect for alleged involvement in the ...

Afghan police have arrested 62 individuals for alleged involvement in criminal activities, including selling and smuggling ...

Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev says critics of his policy towards Afghanistan have come to recognise its validity ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan but for the fourth consecutive year, girls over 12 were barred from attending classes. "All my dreams were shattered," she says, her voice ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January. He was seized by the Taliban's intelligence services in December 2022 and ...

Glezmann, 66, was in Afghanistan as a tourist at the time of ... under U.S. narco-terrorism laws for securing heroin and opium that he knew was bound for the U.S. Unlike in that arrangement ...

Glezmann, 66, was in Afghanistan as a tourist at the time of ... under U.S. narco-terrorism laws for securing heroin and opium that he knew was bound for the U.S. Unlike in that arrangement ...

Glezmann, 66, was in Afghanistan as a tourist at the time of ... under U.S. narco-terrorism laws for securing heroin and opium that he knew was bound for the U.S. Unlike in that arrangement ...