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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 06:52
Barack Obama ended opium eradication efforts in Afghanistan in 2009, effectively green lighting Afghan opium and the heroin trade. U.S. policy has allowed Afghan opium and heroin since. And heroin deaths here tripled from 3,036 in 2010 to 10,574 in 2014; so has heroin use, from 1,500,000 in 2010 to 4,500,000 heroin users in 2014.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 12:00
While the country might be willing to host a base and is less under Russian pressure, its spotty human rights record makes it a problematic option, according to the Bug Pit blog which tracks events in the region.
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 00:00
Their Quds Force presence in the region, as they continue to invest in what they call 'cultural centers' and as they begin to train intelligence officers in the region and so forth.