The US Department of State has issued a joint statement following the meeting of Special Representatives and Special Envoys for Afghanistan from the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the United States. This gathering took place within the framework of the C5+1 regional ...

Following the statements of the head of the defense committee of the British Parliament that there should be an interaction with the Islamic Emirate, experts in international relations say that most of the world's politicians have come to the understanding that the Islamic Emirate has no alternative at the moment, therefore, to recognize the Islamic ...

The UNAMA office in Kabul says that Afghanistan produces 85% of the world's opium.

The Afghan police arrested 17 drug traffickers within past seven days, authorities said on Tuesday.

An Iranian official said above 84 percent of opium in the world originates from Afghanistan.

 Iran's Anti-Narcotics Police Chief Brigadier General Mohammed Masoud Zahedian said since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 the opium production in the country has surged by 45 percent.

At a sprawling government agricultural research farm in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, workers are now picking tiny purple flowers.

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli warned of the large amount of narcotics produced in Afghanistan, describing it as a threat to the entire world.

Farmers in southern Helmand province said Sunday that they were given modified poppy seeds two years ago which now enables them to cultivate the plants year round.