Atta Mohammad Noor, Governor of the Balkh province, speaks during an interview in Mazar-i-Sharif KABUL (Reuters) - Two of Afghanistan's most notorious regional strongmen fled on Saturday as the ...

IT’S PUSHING MIDNIGHT when my armored escort pulls up to a high-walled compound on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital. After more than a year and a half of waiting, Abdul Rashid Dostum, ...

More than 150 fighters have taken over the residence of a notorious Afghan warlord. Many are adjusting to a new lifestyle while awaiting orders from the new government. By Jordan Bryon, Alexandra ...

Gun-toting Taliban fighters were seen on video lounging in the opulent palace of an Afghanistan warlord after taking over Mazar-i-Sharif, one of the country’s last key cities to fall to the ...

More than 150 Taliban fighters have moved into the palace of a US-allied Afghan warlord. A New York Times documentary shows the group giving a tour of the house, which has a pool and sauna. The owner ...

Abdul Rashid Dostum, the thuggish Afghan warlord, would not seem a likely student of Abraham Lincoln. But there he was, echoing the Gettysburg Address as he spoke recently to a large political ...

Taliban fighters on Saturday attacked a convoy carrying Afghanistan's vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum, in an assault that left the former warlord unscathed but killed one of his bodyguards, an ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's attorney general is ordering the arrest of nine employees of Vice-President Rashid Dostum in connection with allegations of kidnapping and torturing a former ...

The U.S. and many Afghans may see Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum as the epitome of the worst brand of warlord politics, but to President Hamid Karzai he represents a bloc of votes crucial to winning ...

Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum is expected to return to Kabul Sunday, more than a year after fleeing the country during an investigation into the rape and torture of a political rival. p ...

KABUL (Reuters) - After months of exile in Turkey, Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum returned to Afghanistan on Sunday after being given a government all-clear in the face of threats by his supporters ...