Lashes swished and whirled through the air in a burst of celebration around a sea of opium poppies, as farmers in a southern Afghan village rejoiced over a bumper harvest with a traditional rope game.

Lashkar Gah is the capital of the volatile province that alone grows half of Afghanistan's opium poppy. Cultivation here grew by 34 percent over last year. On Fridays, hundreds of men gather at the ...

Afghans pushed out of work by the coronavirus pandemic after businesses and schools were shuttered have turned to opium cultivation for cash during this year’s poppy harvest. Afghanistan has long been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Thursday report by the United Nations said opium cultivation is down in Afghanistan, but trafficking arrests are up. Photo by ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --Opium production has dropped sharply in Afghanistan, but trafficking in the region is on the rise, according to a Thursday report by the United Nations. The report, by the UN Office on ...