WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): Twenty-five illegal drug-processing laboratories have been destroyed during an American-led air campaign in southern Helmand province, a senior US military official says.
The airstrikes that began on November 20 were affecting cash flow to the insurgents, Air Force Brigadier General Lance Bunch told Pentagon reporters in a video call from Kabul on Tuesday.
He said: "This equates to almost $80 million of drug money eliminated from the kingpins' pockets, while denying over $16 million of direct revenue to their
