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, ...

Selda Bağcan is a legendary Turkish folk singer known for her powerful voice and socially conscious music. Over the years, she has performed at major festivals worldwide and received the Turkish ...

If presidential contender Ashraf Ghani wins the election recount under way in Afghanistan, his running mate General Abdul Rashid Dostum will be the country’s next vice president. A highly ...

General Abdul Rashid Dostum’s statement on allegations surrounding the deaths of Taliban prisoners who surrendered to Northern Alliance forces in November 2001 underscores the need for an urgent ...

A powerful Afghan warlord accused of kidnapping and raping a political opponent and of committing rights abuses for decades has been given the country's highest military rank, a top official said ...

KABUL (AFP) - Taleban fighters on Saturday (March 30) attacked a convoy carrying Afghanistan's vice-president Abdul Rashid Dostum, in an assault that left the former warlord unscathed but killed one ...

Ahmad Ishchi, who claims he was beaten and detained by Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum last month, displays an injury on his leg during an interview at his home in Kabul on 13 December.

ANKARA, Turkey – The colorful and controversial exiled Afghan figure who was once a potent U.S. ally - as his character is depicted in the recent Hollywood blockbuster "12 Strong - is speaking out ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban ambushed a convoy escorting the vice president of Afghanistan, killing at least one of his bodyguards, Afghan officials said Sunday. The vice president, Gen. Abdul ...

Abdul Rashid Dostum was America’s man in Afghanistan, until things went sour. Now he is back in politics. (Caren Firouz/Reuters) KABUL — He was America's ally, a stocky, gray-haired warlord who fought ...

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — A politician here said Tuesday that he was tortured and sexually abused while being held hostage by Afghanistan’s vice president, the latest development in a sordid ...