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Title: UN says opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan
Tags:drought & drug campaigns & drug chief & kabul afghanistan & militants & opium poppy cultivation & taliban
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but Taliban militants could still derive up to $70 million from the harvest, the U.N. anti-drug chief said Tuesday....

Title: US: 30 militants killed in west Afghanistan clash
Tags:civilians & interior ministry & kabul afghanistan & militants & military officials & taliban
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S.-led troops attacked a compound where Taliban leaders were meeting and killed 30 militants, American and Afghan military officials said Friday, but the Interior Ministry said a large number of civilians died. The U.S. said it would investigate....