ZHARI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In Zhari, a parched district northwest of Afghanistan's second city of Kandahar, 13 year-old Naqibullah is working in his father's poppy field, preparing for the main ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The United Nations is to release figures today for drug production in Afghanistan that will show another reverse for the British-led effort to control the drug trade. The Daily ...

Richard Holbrooke announced in Rome on Saturday that the U.S. will shift anti-poppy efforts in Afghanistan away from destroying crops and toward supporting alternatives. How easy is it to grow poppy?

If Afghanistan had a national motto, it could be: Democracy is dicey and poppies proliferate. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there was a clearly appropriate military response to the terrorist ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- Abdul Sattar is in charge of the anti-drug agency in the largest poppy-growing province in the leading opium-producing country in the world. While sitting on the floor of ...