KABUL: US forces in Afghanistan are planning an offensive against the next opium crop, predicted to be the country’s biggest ever, after calculating that drugs are now Al Qaeda’s main source of income ...

After years of hard work by drug warriors in Afghanistan, the country no longer produces 87 percent of the world's illicit opium. Now it produces 92 percent, according to the latest suspiciously ...

Cooked opium is more pure than raw opium, and can go directly to users or to laboratories for further processing into heroin. Hickory police later find a self-storage unit that Saelee had leased three ...