Taliban lament lack of support despite victory against illicit Afghan drugs

FILE - An Afghan security personnel destroys a poppy field in Argo district, May 13, 2024. Afghan farmers harvest opium sap from a poppy field in Argo district of Badakhshan province, June 30, 2024. FILE - Afghan women receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 28, 2023.

Afghanistan’s Taliban claimed Tuesday that their crackdown on illegal drug production in the country has helped address a major global challenge but expressed frustration at the ongoing lack of international support in response.