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

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

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

Introduction The world of high-stakes diplomacy has always been shrouded in secrecy, but the WikiLeaks document releases ...

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress captures stories of American life and military service. Learn ...

As the US troops departed Afghanistan in August 2021, they destroyed more than 70 aircraft, dozens of armoured vehicles and disabled air defences before flying out of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai ...

August had the most fatalities this year for civilians in Afghanistan because of the country's disputed election, and violence could rise again when the final results are released, a U.N. report warns ...

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai renewed his call for reopening girls’ schools and universities, emphasizing that ...

Afghan evacuees who feared for their lives after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021 now fear for their lives here in ...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped persuade Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to hold off declaring a state of emergency, high level Pakistani government sources said Thursday.

The Afghan government on Monday sent officials to the western province of Herat to investigate a blaze that tore through a ...