Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

Prior to his appointment in Uganda, Mr. Zulu served as the UNHCR Representative in Afghanistan, where he led and coordinated ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a ...

Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan in 2024 increased by an estimated 19 per cent year-on-year to cover 12,800 hectares, according to a new survey released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maldives said in a statement on November 3 that the recent meeting between Mohamed Thoha, ...

Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government's top diplomat in Islamabad without ...

She has compared Israel to Nazi Germany and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, diminishing the Oct. 7 attacks. Albanese has repeatedly described Israel’s war against Hamas as a so-called “genocide.” Germany, ...

Photo by Elise BLANCHARD / AFP) / TO GO WITH ‘Afghanistan-conflict-women-health’, FOCUS by Elise Blanchard The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has identified Afghanistan as one of the most ...

Pakistan’s acting Ambassador to the United Nations, Usman Jadoon, emphasized that a lasting peace cannot be achieved globally ...

Canada's Special Representative to Afghanistan David Sproule is condemning the Taliban's latest curtailment of women's rights ...