In May, clashes between farmers and brigades sent to destroy their poppy fields resulted in several ... s relatively short ...

Gen. Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy fields. "After I finished one of the ...

According to China's Public Security Administration Punishment Law, illegally transporting, buying, selling, storing, or ...

Except in the remote northeast of the country, where the Taliban's control is less strong than in their core areas in the south, poppy cultivation ... grow in the same fields where poppies were ...