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 ...

Opium poppy production in Afghanistan has increased by 19% in 2024, despite a 2022 Taliban ban. The UNODC reports the main production shifted from the southwest to the northeast. Prices remain high, ...

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 ...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reports rising civilian casualties, security incidents, and new restrictions affecting women in its latest quarterly report on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban government said Thursday it had repatriated two killed and several wounded in "explosions and gunfire" in Iran in mid-October, adding it was still investigating the deaths after ...

A Taliban spokesman says explosions and gunfire in Iran targeted and killed at least two Afghans earlier this month ...

This ban is a continuation of the Taliban's extensive restrictions on women's rights, aiming to reduce their public ...

A report by Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, was released Monday to the ... Bennett is set to present the findings of his report to the United Nations General ...