U.S. Struggles To Curb Afghanistan's Opium Industry
KABUL, Afghanistan — For years, American officials have struggled to curb Afghanistan’s opium industry, rewriting strategy every few seasons and p...
KABUL, Afghanistan — For years, American officials have struggled to curb Afghanistan’s opium industry, rewriting strategy every few seasons and p...
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz | Posted 05.04.2012
After more than a decade of military occupation and trillions of dollars spent, the general environment in Afghanistan is extremely dangerous and unsafe, even in the capital.
American Anthropological Association | Posted 04.09.2012
As an anthropologist conducting research in Afghanistan, I find that whenever the gaze of the international media falls on Afghan women I feel uncomfortable.
The New York Times | JACK HEALY | Posted 12.11.2011
Despite increased efforts to destroy fields of opium poppies and wean Afghan farmers off the country’s biggest cash crop, poppy cultivation in Afgha...
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 11.28.2011
By RAHIM FAIEZ -- The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Eight policemen were killed in an attack early Wednesday near a southern Afghan ci...
The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 10.29.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — Once a river flowed under the low Pul-i-Sokhta bridge here, but now the thin stream is clotted with garbage, the banks are pile...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 08.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- In late 2006, then defense secretary nominee Robert Gates was asked if he thought the United States was winning. In what was one of hi...
CNN | Posted 05.25.2011
Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In a far flung corner of northern Afghanistan, Aziza reaches into the dark wooden cupboard, rummages around, and ...
AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — Drug addicts as young as a month old. Mothers who calm their children by blowing opium smoke in their faces. Whole communit...
Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 05.25.2011
Our only realistic choice in Afghanistan is serious rural development -- that is, reconstructing the Afghan countryside through countless small-scale projects until food crops become a viable alternative to opium.
McClatchy | Dion Nissenbaum | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 05.25.2011
MARJAH, Afghanistan -- U.S. Marine Sgt. Brad Vandehei stood on the edge of the small opium poppy field that serves as a central helicopter landing zon...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 05.25.2011
Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: "Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work."
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — The Taliban make Afghanistan's opium business easy, offering credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the ins...
Martin Varsavsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Failed policies in the Middle East could be reshaped by learning from those who have managed to do surprisingly well for themselves: the Israelis, the Iranians and the Afghan drug lords.
Yahoo! News | VIVIENNE WALT | Posted 05.25.2011
Could Afghanistan's opium boom be over? Perhaps. According to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium cultivation has...
The Washington Post | Pamela Constable | Posted 05.25.2011
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- The economic fortunes of Badakhshan province, a remote and wildly beautiful corner of far northeastern Afghanistan, have rise...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011
With the Mexican drug war completely out of control, Afghanistan supplying 90% of the world's opium, and our economy in collapse, the media has finally begun to seriously question our approach.
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
We now have a chance to bankrupt the Mexican cartels, the Taliban, the Bloods and the Crips, and the gangs that are shooting their way across world -- before they cause the collapse of two countries.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan and coalition troops found and destroyed 2.5 tons of marijuana in an abandoned school in southern Afghanistan, while...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
In the years since the initial invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the nation's attention has steadily turned away from a mission that the Bush administr...
The New York Times | Posted 05.27.2012