Washington on Wednesday named a general in Iran's elite al-Quds force as a key figure in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan.

Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have trafficked heroin from Afghanistan

A United Nations agency will report that opium poppy production has fallen in Afghanistan this year but there are enough stocks to keep supplying heroin production, the agency's new chief said on Wednesday

Corruption in Afghanistan has doubled in the two years since 2007, according to a survey by anti-corruption charity Integrity Watch

Turkish authorities confiscated 31 percent more illegal substances in 2009 than the previous year, in a sign of increasing drug trafficking activities using Turkey as a thoroughfare, new data from the National Police Department’s Anti-Organized Crime and Smuggling Department show

Iranian border guard units have seized several tons of illicit drugs at the country’s eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan during the last one month, a senior Iranian police commander announced on Sunday

Tehran (FNA)- The Iranian Law Enforcement Police have seized considerable amounts of illicit drugs in several operations in the country’s southern province of Fars, a provincial police commander announced on Monday.

Half of all Afghan adults paid at least one bribe to a public official over the course of a year to cut through red tape or get help with poor service, the U.N. said Tuesday in a report that documents the extraordinary depth of corruption in Afghanistan.

Iran seized more than 500 tons of drugs from smugglers, Commander of Iran’s anti-drug squad General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi said in Turkey yesterday.