KABUL, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Police have thwarted attempts to smuggle 25 kg of drugs in western Afghanistan's Nimroz province, provincial director for counter-narcotics Faiz Mohammad Faizani said.

Thankfully, the case against me was purely political, and I had the support of relentless advocates and negotiators who ...

Afghan national army has thwarted attempts to smuggle drugs and detained three alleged drug smugglers in the southern Afghanistan Helmand province, said an army spokesman in the region, Jawed Agha, on ...

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The First Opium War wasn’t just about drugs it was about trade, empire, and clashing worldviews. This video explores why Britain went to war with China in 1839, using opium as leverage to force open ...

The Brits were desperate to find something—anything—that Chinese people craved. Opium ticked all the boxes. The Brits had tons of it because it grew abundantly in India, which was under British ...

China seeks to undo the ‘Century of Humiliation’ in which it ceded great territory to Moscow.

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