VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it ...

Security forces eradicated poppy fields in Arunachal Pradesh's Longding district, destroying crops over eight acres near the ...

Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation fell to 10,200 hectares this year, one of the lowest levels recorded in the country's history, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said, but the Taliban ban has ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of ...

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to provide alternative crops to farmers in the tribal districts to ensure the ...

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 year, ...

In a major anti-narcotics crackdown, Central and state security forces have destroyed more than 306 acres of illegal poppy ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Good times, as they say, don’t last forever, especially when the achievements have been force-managed. For nearly three years, a Taliban ...

Security forces have destroyed poppy cultivation spread over eight acres of land in Arunachal Pradesh's Longding district, ...