During the long war in Afghanistan, the United States fought many visible battles — against the Taliban, against terrorism, ...

ZHARI, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s the cash crop of the Taliban and the scourge of Afghanistan — the country’s intractable opium cultivation. This year, many Afghan poppy farmers are expecting a windfall ...

The Washington Post revealed the CIA secretly dropped modified poppy seeds over Afghanistan for a decade to weaken its opium ...

CIA airdropped modified poppy seeds to degrade potency of Afghanistan’s billion-dollar opium crop between 2004-2015, Washington Post reports - Anadolu Ajansı ...

In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in ...

A covert operation by the CIA between 2004 and 2015 saw the US drop modified poppy seeds in Afghanistan to degrade the ...