Articles tagged with: “Opium”
Afghan drug capital is U.S. target in coming offensive
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.-led offensive that's expected to start soon in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province will be a battle not only against the Taliban ...
Britain hits grim milestone before major attack
KABUL -- Three British soldiers have died in southern Afghanistan, officials announced Monday, raising Britain's death toll in the conflict to 256 - breaking the ...
Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges West to buy off the Taliban
After giving up on winning victory in Afghanistan by military means, the international community is resorting to the centuries-old method of buying its way out. ...
U.N. report finds corruption rife in Afghanistan
LONDON (Reuters) - Corruption costs Afghans $2.5 billion a year, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday, with the scale of bribery matching Afghanistan's opium ...
AP Interview: US agriculture secretary urges Afghan farmers to grow grapes not opium poppy
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban make Afghanistan's opium business easy, offering credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the insurgency. ...
1 US, 8 Afghan troops killed by roadside bombs
KABUL — Roadside bombs have killed eight Afghan soldiers and a U.S. service member in separate incidents in Afghanistan, officials said Friday.NATO confirmed the American ...
Afghan militant attacks set pace for a bloody 2010
KABUL — Afghanistan's war exited 2009 on a sour note for an international community that has committed thousands of troops and billions of dollars into ...
Troops deaths in Afghan war seen rising with surge
KABUL — The arrival in Afghanistan of tens of thousands of reinforcements to fight the Taliban will lead to a higher death rate among foreign ...
Marine charged with breaking into pharmacy
JACKSONVILLE, NC -- Police say they arrested a Camp Lejeune Marine caught stealing more than 2,000 pills from a Jacksonville pharmacy Monday.Douglas Sumner, 20, of ...
Afghan women lead protest against government corruption
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Several hundred women, many holding aloft pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, held a loud but ...
As deaths in Afghanistan rise, so does the growth of opium
Attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan are at record levels and threaten to derail efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, while an unholy alliance of ...
Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation
Just when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan the American envoy ...
Gen. (Ret.) Jack Keane Discusses Afghanistan with Al Jazeera English's Avi Lewis
JACK KEANE: Karzai's brother is a thug, in every sense of the word. We're onto him, to all the problems he's causing. Is he mixed ...
Moore on CNN: ‘No middle ground’ on Afghanistan; ‘We need to leave’
Filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN's Larry King that it's time for President Barack Obama to wind down the war in Afghanistan. "It's unwinnable. It's immoral. ...
Michael Moore Discusses Afghanistan on Larry King Live, October 29, 2009
KING: Let's touch another base here Michael, while we have you. Let's talk about Afghanistan. You were very critical in "Fahrenheit 911" over Bush and ...
Karzai's brother 'on CIA payroll'
US involvement in Afghanistan has come into new question with the claim that President Hamid Karzai's brother has for years been on the payroll of ...
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