A farmer in the southern province of Helmand, where most of the opium was ... However, when the Taliban took action against poppy cultivation in May of this year, thousands of angry villagers ...

They just want power." Helmand Province is the Taliban's stronghold and ground zero for Afghanistan's poppy cultivation. It is the place where Americans, in a massive development project after ...

I was in a military helicopter thundering over the lush poppy fields of the Helmand ... You've heard of Helmand. It is the most dangerous province in Afghanistan. Of the 454 British soldiers ...

In Helmand, located in southern Afghanistan, the site of hundreds of murders nearly always carried out by the Taliban, one-fifth of the land under cultivation was devoted to opium poppy.