Drug trafficking is an enterprise primarily driven by monetary incentives, serving as a significant revenue source for organised criminal factions. Many of these syndicates are also involved in other ...

KABUL, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Security personnel have discovered and destroyed a drug processing lab in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a spokesman of the national army in the province, Nazir ...

Within the country, individuals are trafficked for purposes such as bonded labour, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, ...

Myanmar is on track for another year of record opium production, after overtaking Afghanistan as the largest producer in the ...

Police have discovered illicit drugs and arrested 17 alleged drug smugglers in the southern Afghanistan Kandahar province, ...

OTS Summit, leaders called for inclusive governance in Afghanistan and stronger efforts against terrorism and drug ...

A former State Department official revealed Tuesday what he describes as a decades-long, taxpayer-funded drug economy that ...

A former State Department official revealed Tuesday what he describes as a decades-long, taxpayer-funded drug economy that ...

The United Nations estimates that $2–3 billion annually flows through Balochistan’s drug routes. Additionally, the smuggling of Iranian diesel into Pakistan via Balochistan generates $500 million ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in opium prices and the ‘massive profits’ from it are being reaped by criminal gangs, United Nations' drugs watchdog has flagged. But why are opium prices in ...