Nato to tackle Afghan drug lords

telegraph.co.uk

Oct. 10, 2008

Nato forces in Afghanistan will target Afghan drug lords and opium laboratories in an attempt to stop the booming drugs trade financing Taliban insurgents it has been agreed .

Afghan police complete course on drugs

VIENNA, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A class of police officers from Afghanistan graduated Monday from a specialized training course held near Moscow on countering narcotics trafficking.

Afghan police allegedly aided Taliban

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Taliban forces pulled off a deadly surprise attack against U.S. soldiers last summer with the help of Afghan police, a Pentagon report alleged Tuesday.

Troops destroy Afghan drug-making facility

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. military says Afghan commandoes and coalition forces destroyed more than 44 tons of hashish at a drug-making facility in Kandahar province Monday.

U.S. keying in on Afghan drug trade

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A broad Bush administration revision in its war strategy in Afghanistan is keying in on the country's burgeoning drug trafficking trade, U.S. officials say.

More deaths in Afghan violence

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber struck a German military convoy in northern Afghanistan Monday, killing two German soldiers and five children, NATO officials report.

100 Taliban killed in Afghan clashes

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- More than 100 Taliban fighters were killed in a pair of clashes with Afghan and NATO forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials said Sunday.

NATO joining in Afghan drug war

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- NATO says it will send troops to join attacks on the "rampant" Afghanistan opium drug trade.

Karzai's brother denies drug trade links

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Assertions that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother is involved in the country's booming heroin trade have U.S. officials worried, observers say.

U.S. military disputes report on deaths

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. military officials say five civilians died in an airstrike in Afghanistan two weeks ago -- not at least 90 as claimed in a report by the United Nations.

NATO-led forces kill three children

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Military officials say NATO-led forces accidentally killed three children near Kabul in southeastern Afghanistan.

Insurgents attack security checkpoint

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Forty Taliban insurgents were killed in a battle with Afghan security forces in the country's eastern province of Paktika, a provincial governor said.

Karzai fires two Afghan commanders

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Two Afghan army commanders were fired after a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed 89 civilians, many of them children.

Afghanistan clash kills 10 French soldiers

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The French government said Tuesday 10 of its soldiers died in fighting near Kabul, while U.S. and Afghan forces killed several insurgents in other clashes.

Dozens of Taliban killed

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- More than two dozen Taliban fighters were killed during an unsuccessful ambush of a NATO supply convoy Sunday, Afghan officials said.

Official suggests link to drug trade

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- An Afghan security official says he has proof that members of Afghanistan's Parliament are in collusion with the country's illicit drug trafficking network.