The artists have now left around 50 of their huge portraits around the Afghan capital, most in places where politicians, warlords and the military can see them every day. Their messages have ...

5 Afghanistan’s first interim government from December 2001 to June 2002 was made up predominately of representatives of military factions. At the local level, warlords or their representatives ...

Paying off warlords to fight the Taliban and keep order ... this ghastly two-decade-long misadventure surfaced after the Afghanistan Papers were released: the commentariat will stop at nothing ...

But as Miller quietly gave up his duties, a very different scene was playing out in northern Afghanistan, a “traditional stronghold of US-allied warlords and an area dominated by the country’s ...

At the Mercy of the Men with Guns: Afghanistan’s WarlordsAt the Mercy of the Men with Guns: Afghanistan’s Warlords ...

Despite the 2001 Bonn Agreement, which established a government under President Karzai, most parts of Afghanistan are still controlled by autonomous commanders—warlords—who control militia ...