WAR AND ORGANIZED CRIME GONE GLOBAL

Between 1992 and 1996, different mujahedeen factions fought to co ontr al Jod-e-Maiwand in Kabul was reduced to rubble in 1994 after Abdul Rashid Dostum, ae leader of an Uzbek faction, broke away from the Kabul government and sent his fighter jets in to bomb the capital. He joined sides with the Hezb-e-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the ex-prime minister who had broken away from the central government a year earlier and who was now responsible for daily rocket-barrages into the city center. Kabul, 1993, Afghanistan.

The implosion of Libya, Syria, and Iraq has gone hand in hand with the rise of Islamic State and groups such as al Qaeda. Many of those rebel movements have spawned from Afghanistan during the Cold War.

Globalization has allowed the same forces driving Afghanistan's fragmentation to replicate elsewhere in the world in ever more violent ways.

POPPY Interactive is a protracted investigation spanning over 20 years and covering the global nexus of drugs, war, and organized crime using photos, video, radio reports, and found footage.

Guided by POPPY's interactive maps, you will explore three interconnected routes across the world, covering countries and cities on opposite sides of the globe, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Dubai, London, Washington, and Brussels.

During your journey, you will discover that the connection between war, organized crime, and chronic poverty is tight and complex.