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Dostum (left), the Afghan deputy defense minister, and interim government leader Hamid Karzai at a ceremony in Mazar-i-Sharif marking the traditional Afghan new year, March 21, 2002 ...

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.

The present owner of Dostum's Kabul mansion has no interest in either luxury or revenge, Salahuddin Ayoubi told AFP. Afghanistan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who also served as the vice president ...

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. Now in the hands of rank and file ...

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 ...

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.