WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan will include 50 drug traffickers with links to the insurgents, says a study.
WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- The United States expressed disappointment Wednesday with a decision by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to pardon convicted drug offenders.
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 4 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pardoned at least 10 convicted drug traffickers recently, officials say.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A police drug sweep in a Rio de Janeiro slum left 10 people dead, authorities said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 1 (UPI) -- Brazilian authorities arrested six major drug traffickers ahead of an alleged planned attack against a rival gang in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
MADRID, May 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. anti-drug official said in Madrid that Latin American drug traffickers are increasingly using the euro as currency.
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, July 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, traveling in Tajikistan, says drug traffickers are helping to finance the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 25 (UPI) -- Afghan security forces have arrested six drug traffickers and seized four tons of opium and 45 pounds of heroin during raids in the southeast of the country.
TEHRAN, April 22 (UPI) -- Iranian police killed 24 drug traffickers during a crackdown on gangs in the eastern part of the country, the official Iranian News Agency reported Thursday.
Russian troops guarding Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan shot and killed two drug traffickers, local media reported on Saturday.
