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Military Times
April 27, 2018
David Mansfield, a senior fellow at the London School of Economics, has researched opium production in Afghanistan for the past 20 growing seasons. In a January report for the LSE's International Drug Policy Unit, he questioned the high tax rate U.S. officials claim the Taliban apply to drug labs, as well asÃâà...
Military Times
April 27, 2018
David Mansfield, a senior fellow at the London School of Economics, has researched opium production in Afghanistan for the past 20 growing seasons. In a January report for the LSE's International Drug Policy Unit, he questioned the high tax rate U.S. officials claim the Taliban apply to drug labs, as well asÃâà...
The Columbian
April 26, 2018
A January report by the Pentagon watchdog, known as SIGAR, said that despite $8.7 billion spent on counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan, opium production was up 87 percent in the first 11 months of 2017 from the same period a year earlier, an all-time record. President Donald Trump agreed last yearÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 25, 2018
Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, the main stronghold of ISIS in Afghanistan, said the brothers were killed in Chaparhar district on Saturday night. The eldest ... The process to harvest poppy crop has kicked off in provinces across Afghanistan, the world's top opium producer.
KIIITV.com
April 14, 2018
Afghan security force personnel destroy an illegal poppy crop in the Dara-i-Noor district in the eastern province of Nangarhar on April 10, 2018. The US government has spent billions of dollars on a war to eliminate drugs from Afghanistan, but the country still remains the world's top opium producer.
KIIITV.com
April 14, 2018
Afghan security force personnel destroy an illegal poppy crop in the Dara-i-Noor district in the eastern province of Nangarhar on April 10, 2018. The US government has spent billions of dollars on a war to eliminate drugs from Afghanistan, but the country still remains the world's top opium producer.
Yale News
April 13, 2018
The researchers conducted a randomized controlled experiment over a period from 2015 to 2017 when Kandahar was experiencing frequent combat operations, a sharp economic downturn, and a robust opium crop. The research sample consisted of 2,597 men and women who were deemed vulnerableÃâà...
Military Times
April 11, 2018
... U.S. airstrikes previously focused on the poppy-rich province of Helmand, in the south of the country. But last week, 11 Taliban narcotics production facilities were struck in Farah and Nimroz provinces, located in the country's western portion, according to a press statement from U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.
Hurriyet Daily News
April 11, 2018
The campaign targeting Afghan drug labs began as opium production jumped 87 percent last year to a record high amount in Afghanistan, the world's main heroin ... The drug lab campaign began in November, and has now included 75 strikes, especially in Helmand, a major poppy-growing province.
Global Voices Online
April 8, 2018
Car bombings in Afghanistan's flash point Helmand province are sadly ordinary events, but one particularly devestating blast that took place recently has ... In Lashkar Gah, the administrative capital of Helmand, which is known as a Taliban group political heartland and a centre of opium production, a carÃâà...
The New Daily
April 7, 2018
The failure of the Afghanistan war in which Australia, as a loyal ally of America, has been a major contributor has fueled opium and heroin production in the region to unprecedented levels, ... “Opium eradication and crop substitution have been worse than an absolute failure,” Dr McCoy told The New Daily.
Aljazeera.com
March 17, 2018
Opium production in Afghanistan reaches record high ... efforts to destroy poppy fields and opium production, unemployment and 16 years of war have driven an increase in both supply and demand in Afghanistan. ... Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since the US invasion in 2001.
Citizen Truth (blog)
March 15, 2018
Last November, the UN Office of Drugs and Crime released its annual Afghanistan Opium Survey. The survey found that the country's 2017 opium crop stood at an estimated 9,000 tons and was up 87 percent from the previous year. The increase of poppy/opium crop production means that the Taliban hasÃâà...
Monterey County Weekly
March 15, 2018
And it seemed all eyes – from the U.S. and Europe – were looking at Afghanistan's first-ever democratic election, searching for some legitimacy to democracy and ... She had ideas for the economy like instead of growing opium – the country's principal crop – they could grow saffron, which is a lucrative crop.
Sputnik International
March 15, 2018
Politifact reports that there were approximately 200,000 hectares of land being used for opium production in 2016 versus about 70,000 hectares being used for the same purpose in 2002. During this time, the US has spent at least $8.5 billion for the expressed purpose of ridding Afghanistan of narcotics,Ãâà...
Pravda
March 15, 2018
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was estimated at 328,000 ... These days Afghanistan is not the only top producer of opium in the world but also the largest producer of cannabis, another illegal crop from whichÃâà...
NewsBytes
March 13, 2018
As per the UN, Afghan opium production rose by 87% in 2017 compared to 2016, because of rapid expansion of poppy farmlands under the Taliban, which reaps the profits. The business has spiraled so uncontrollably that even America failed to check it despite spending $8.6bn since 2001. From $1.56bnÃâà...
Times of India
March 13, 2018
As it is, Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of poppy opium, which is used to make heroin. And far from its production declining, the UN says that opium production in the country actually rose 87% in 2017 from 2016. The increase is attributed to a rapid expansion of territory used to cultivate poppy,Ãâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 12, 2018
US Supported Trade in Heroin: One Million Women, 100,000 Children Drug Addicts in Afghanistan ... According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was estimated at 328,000 hectares in 2017. it is worth remembering thatÃâà...
The Columbian
March 12, 2018
The country produces more opium than all other countries combined, according to U.N. estimates. The southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar are where most of the poppy fields are and where the majority of the production takes place while Herat lies along a key smuggling route to neighboring IranÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 11, 2018
... their ability to inflict severe damage on Afghan security forces. The incident was the latest in a series to have hit Farah province, between the border with Iran and the Taliban heartland of Helmand province, source of much of Afghanistan's opium crop. It came ahead of an expected increase in fighting withÃâà...
Eurasia Review
March 9, 2018
Above all else, farmers must be given the opportunity and necessary resources to grow alternative crops. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that most Afghan farmers are sharecroppers, whose landlords dictate what they can grow. Consequently, the high-value opium poppy is the crop of choice.
Fair Observer
March 6, 2018
In the spring of 2001, American experts concluded that a ban on opium-poppy cultivation by Afghanistan's Taliban government had wiped out the world's largest heroin-producing crop. Later that year, the US military invaded and, since 2002, America has pumped $8.7 billion in counternarcotics funding intoÃâà...
Swarajya
March 3, 2018
By 1996, the year in which militancy ended in Punjab, opium production in Afghanistan had risen to 2,700 tonnes, a record high. Under international pressure, the Taliban government ... Poppy farmer Abdul Rassod poses as he looks over at his field in Panshar, Afghanistan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images).
The National Interest Online
February 25, 2018
... United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported this past November that both the level of opium production and the area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached record highs in 2017. Such realities invite a rigorous interrogation of the rationales for America's continued involvement there.
HSToday
February 19, 2018
Afghanistan has long been a major supplier of the world's heroin due to the perfect climate for poppy cultivation and myriad covert operations to ... Though there are many baseless accusations that America overtly assisted in the opium production and transportation process in Afghanistan in the late '80s,Ãâà...
Paste Magazine
February 13, 2018
Players have five lives and must clear out poppy plants and the heroin and opium produced from it while avoiding hidden soldiers, land mines, drug traffickers and heroin labs. The focus on Afghanistan's production of opium and heroin is unsurprising. According to the AP, the Taliban is still heavily involvedÃâà...
Voice of America
February 11, 2018
Afghanistan is the world's top grower of poppy, from which opium and heroin are produced. United Nations estimates show the country produces more opium than all other countries combined. Most poppy fields and drug production are in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. The city of HeratÃâà...
Daily Times
February 6, 2018
HERAT: Female Afghan computer coders have developed a computer game to help fight against the country's opium production. ... computer training center have developed a computer video game, in which a protagonist, an Afghan soldier, is tasked to fight against the enemy hidden in the poppy fields andÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Late last year the Brookings Institution in the US reported that from 2016 to 2017, the area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased by 63 percent, to 328,000 hectares; the estimated total production of opium shot up by 87 percent to 9,000 metric tons. That's the most in Afghan history, theÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
Lal Mohammed Durrani, deputy chairman of the provincial council in Nangarhar, said the abduction took place when the farmers were working in poppy fields. The process to harvest poppy crop has kicked off in provinces across Afghanistan, the world's top opium producer. Last year, the United NationsÃâà...
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
“Record-high opium production is but one indication of how badly U.S. efforts have failed and are continuing to fail,” said Andrew Bacevich, professor of ... “The Taliban is a major player in setting farm quotas for poppy farmers, storing and transporting opium out of Afghanistan, running and protecting drugÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
... to get involved with insurgents in Afghanistan. Most foreign fighters in Afghanistan hail from Pakistan, Chechnya and Uzbekistan. The southern province of Helmand, which is known for its lucrative opium production, remains a Taliban stronghold. The Islamist group controls 10 of the province's 14 districts.
The National Interest Online
December 31, 1999
This past November, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its annual survey of opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan for 2017. As ever, the ... Indeed, drug production and other challenges currently facing Afghanistan, the United States, and their common allies are cumulative.
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