Drug trafficking operations in Afghanistan have hit record levels despite the $7.8 billion anti-narcotics campaign funded by the U.S. government since 2002.
Ill-defined policies from the U.S. Agency for International Development and other federal agencies aren’t reducing opium poppy cultivation, according to the the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
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