The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban ... The ensuing decade-long war between the Soviets and the U.S.-backed mujahideen claimed farm-to-market roads, irrigation canals ...

"When China blocked the British opium trade ... American ships during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s. "Along with forced conscription of American sailors into the British Navy, the ...

Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote ... Aung Hla agreed. With the war, he said, "we don't have any choice." ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s biggest opium producer, according to a U.N. agency report released Tuesday. The ...