Tracing the ebbs and flows of Afghanistan’s narco-economy, which reflects shifting Taliban priorities and global conditions.

Women face a ban from studying medicine since last December and must practice under Taliban's strict guidelines ...

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan is operating training camps in four Afghan provinces, while Jamaat Ansarullah is operating camps in two more. Both groups continue to receive support from the ...

A report submitted to the United Nations Security Council by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has ...

In Badakhshan, chief of police Kintuz appears to be making some headway against poppies. Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled ...

Currently, at least 800 Taliban fighters have been deployed to the Badakhshan province’s central part MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/. Supporters of the Taliban radical movement (outlawed in Russia ...

Three more provincial capitals fall in Badakhshan, Baghlan and Farah, giving the Taliban control over two-thirds of the country. With those regions lost, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani rushes to ...

In Badakhshan, where the majority Tajik population is largely opposed to the Taliban, strong resistance to the ban on cultivation has emerged. In this province in Afghanistan's far northeast ...

where the Taliban has struggled to assert its power. Poppy cultivation in Badakhshan province declined only by about 56 percent between 2021 and last year, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs ...