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Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan
America’s war on drugs is failing in Afghanistan, with opium production at record levels, despite spending $7.5 billion to tackle the problem. Over 200 thousand hectares is used to grow opium, an increase of 36 percent, according to a US report.
The report, which was commissioned by SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction makes grim reading, with opium poppy cultivation...
31 US forces killed in Afghanistan
US soldiers in Afghanistan
At least thirty-one US special forces have been killed after a helicopter belonging to the NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crashed in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Wardak.
The deaths were announced in a statement by the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, AFP reported on Saturday.
The death toll is the biggest in a single incident...
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