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 ...

As Afghanistan enforces a near-total poppy ban, Pakistan’s Balochistan emerges as the new centre of a resurgent opium economy ...

Local Afghans work in their poppy field in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2014. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Dustin D. March, Marine Expeditionary Brigade Afghanistan) The United ...

For anyone living in America, the nightmarish shift in a contaminated drug supply is all too familiar. For roughly two decades, the United States has been gripped by an increasingly deadly overdose ...

It has been over four years now since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan. But even now, we are still learning new things about the 20-year U.S. presence there. Last week, The Washington Post broke ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Surveillance drones hover over white-and-pink poppy fields in rural Pakistan, guiding men armed with assault ...