Is Afghanistan's Future To Be One Where The Drug Mafias Rule?

Afghan farmers work on a poppy field in the Grishk District of Helmand Province. ( File photo ) The Taliban's Life Of Luxury -- Ron More...

Afghanistan's Opium Epidemic

A British soldier patrols a poppy field in Helmand. Production has apparently tripled since troops arrived in 2006 Opium Addicts Of Afghanis...

Afghanistan's Booming Heroin Trade

Killing fields: Farmers in Afghanistan gather an opium crop which will be made into heroin. Photo from The Daily Mail Look On The Bright Sid...

A Look At Afghanistan's Drug Economy

Why Afghanistan May Never Eradicate Opium -- Dawood Azami, BBC Despite the best efforts of Afghanistan's drug eradication programme, t...

Opium And Heroin Addiction Is Going To Be Afghanistan's Long Term Problem

In Afghanistan, most children become addicts as a result of their parents - passively inhaling their fathers’ opium smoke in the house. (Reu...

The Afghan Drug Trade Is Creating A Security Crisis Throughout Central Asia

RIA Novosti (Oct. 23, 2009): The most modern and the best equipped laboratories processing opium poppy into heroin are located in the northe...

Why Did NATO Fail In Controling Afghanistan's Booming Opium Trade

Afghan farmers work in a poppy field in Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan, May 16, 2012. According to a UN report, poppy cultivation in ...

An Iran Connection To Afghanistan's Drug Trade

UN Office on Drugs and Crime head Yury Fedotov (right) and Iranian narcotics police chief Hamidreza Housein Abadi look at bags of Afghan-mad...

Afghanistan's Drug Trade Is In The Billions

U.N.: Afghan's $61B Drug Trade Funding Terrorism -- CBS News The World Drug Report for 2011 is grim: drug trafficking is no longer a soc...

Afghanistan's Opium Wars

Opium Wars -- National Geographic A key step to securing peace will be to wean Afghan farmers off growing poppies. The chief of police has a...

Afghanistan's Drug Lords Have All The Appearance Of Colobian-Style Drug Cartels

A U.S. Marine patrols through a poppy field in a village in the Golestan district of Farah province, Afghanistan ( Reuters ) Taliban Drug Ca...

Heroin Addicts Around The World Are Affected By Afghanistan's Poppy Crop Failure This Year

Killing fields: Farmers in Afghanistan gather an opium crop which will be made into heroin. Photo from The Daily Mail Heroin Shortage In UK ...

Are The Taliban Running Out Of Money And Bullets?

Taliban weapons recovered from assault on COP Margah. Photo from The Long War Journal A Serious Shortage Of Product -- Strategy Page Novembe...

Russia And Afghanistan Come To Agreement On Future Drug Raids

Russia 'Reaches Understanding' With Karzai Over Afghan Drug Raids -- RIA Novosti Russia and the U.S. will continue joint operations ...

A Look At Afghanistan's Drug Industry

UN/World Bank Afghanistan Drug Industry Report -- Public Intelligence The magnitude and importance of Afghanistan’s opium economy are virtua...

Russian Authorities Are Upset Over U.S./Nato Anti-Drug Efforts In Afghanistan

Power couple: President Medvedev and Vladimir Putin. Photo from The Daily Mail Russia Orders Troops To Prepare For War With US -- Before It ...

Trying To Stop The Afghan Drug Trade

Canadian soldiers patrol through an Afghan poppy field - Photo MCpl Robert Bottrill Marines Try Unorthodox Tactics To Disrupt Afghan Opium H...

Afghanistan Drug Wars Continue -- September 3, 2009

Poppy field workers just outside of the village of Wazir, Afghanistan, harvest opium resin from poppy plants using a scraping tool. By Jack ...

The Impact Of Opium On The War In Afghanistan -- A News Roundup And Analysis

Drug traffickers will now be given the same target status as Taliban leaders by US forces. Photograph: Adam Butler/AP Opium Barons At Top Of...

Losing Afghanistan’s Drug War

Costa: 'The [drug eradication] money would be better spent on development assistance, like hospitals and schools'. Massoud Hossaini...