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

The modified seeds, while not genetically engineered, were selectively bred to produce poppies with lower alkaloid content.

K N Pandita [email protected] Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign minister of Afghanistan, who was recently on a week-long visit to ...

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

Pakistan and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have been unable to reach an accommodation over their border dispute for a simple reason: each of them has zero trust in the other.

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

Judges, lawyers and officials who carried out rulings under Pakistan’s un-Islamic laws were targeted,' the Pakistan Taliban ...

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

In March of 2002, United States CIA paramilitary officers would embark on a mission to the Shah i Kot Valley, and the ...

Venezuela hopes the prospect of ‘another Iraq’ in Latin America serves as a deterrent against US intervention.

Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – ...

Stay informed with the latest breaking news from Afghanistan. Politics, business, sports, and culture updates in English – ...