Taliban authorities impose new prison sentences for drug use and trafficking in Afghanistan as UN reports show rising synthetic drug consumption trends.

KABUL, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police on Tuesday thwarted a drug smuggling attempt in the northern Badakhshan province, apprehending four suspects and seizing 23 kilograms of hashish, a spokesman ...

The decision to arm Tajikistan’s border troops comes after months of cross-border attacks, but the CSTO’s track record gives ...

Clashes on the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border highlight continued drug smuggling challenges despite cooperation and intensified counter-narcotics ...

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During a meeting today with UN officials and foreign representatives, Afghan authorities stated that the decline in opium use is due to the ban on poppy cultivation imposed in 2023. However, a UN repo ...

KABUL, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have detained 128 individuals on drug smuggling charges during operations over the past week, the country's Ministry of Interior said in a statement on ...

Kemi Badenoch has returned to a McDonald's kitchen 30 years after working at the fast food restaurant as a teenager. The ...

FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): More than 6,200 kilogrammes of various types of narcotics were set alight in western Ghor province on ...

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The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has recovered a total of 1,353 kilograms of narcotics from operations around the country, totalling over Rs77.85 million and leading to the arrests of nine ...

GWADAR/QUETTA: Balochistan police arrested 29 Afghan nationals trying to illegally enter Pakistan on their way to Iran and eventually Europe, while a wider provincial crackdown netted hundreds of ...