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

Drug traffickers in Syria and Jordan are cashing in on growing demand for amphetamines in Bahrain and other Gulf countries, according to a new United Nations (UN) report.

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