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Dostum blames the collapse of the Afghan military on President Ashraf Ghani’s inept leadership. “We were in the hands of a person who could not rally people who were against the Taliban.

Dostum’s control over the north of Afghanistan has been legendary. His portraits were scattered across the province and his militants and associates enjoyed almost unlimited powers. He was the ...

Afghanistan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who also served as the vice president before Amrullah Saleh had a mansion in Kabul. After he fled to an unknown location days after promising Ashraf Ghani ...

Taliban fighters have taken over the glitzy Kabul mansion of one of their fiercest enemies -- the warlord and fugitive ex-vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum.

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, U.S.-backed Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum’s forces murdered hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners by ...

Dostum, a former Afghan vice president, is one of two notorious strongmen in the region who fled over the border into Uzbekistan Saturday amid the Taliban’s encroachment.

Abdul Rashid Dostum, 67, has forged a reputation as a ruthless survivor over 40 years of conflict in the war-torn country and promises to "turn northern Afghanistan into the graveyard of the Taliban." ...

Hailing from northern Jawzjan province, a young Dostum enlisted in the Soviet-backed Afghan military in the 1970s and rose dramatically through the ranks -- only to abandon the government when it ...

The scene was a familiar one as warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum jetted into northern Afghanistan this week -- a promise of bloodshed and vengeance, and no apology for his vicious past.

The scene was a familiar one as warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum jetted into northern Afghanistan this week -- a promise of bloodshed and vengeance, and no ...

Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek warlord, was awarded the rank of Marshal earlier this year as part of the new power-sharing deal between Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah.