Just like during Afghanistan's civil war in the '90s, powerful former warlords are remobilizing their old militias. The move comes as international forces prepare to leave the country.

The watchdog group, Human Rights Watch, reported Tuesday that Afghan warlords are trying to hijack the upcoming October election. Ray Suarez leads a discussion about the election situation in ...

Like many mothers in Afghanistan, Maghferat Samimi has affixed a photo of a child to her mobile phone. But the 2 1/2-year-old is not her daughter. She is a rape victim, one of scores that Samimi ...

One of the biggest obstacles to free and fair elections in Afghanistan are the countries warlords. Commanding private armies and controlling vast sections of the country, there is little chance ...

It’s a delusion to think warlords will quietly fade away. The U.S. military did not go into Afghanistan to build a functioning government, but because it was the base for al-Qaeda, which had ...

America’s Warlords in Afghanistan. To fight the Taliban, the United States created a new generation of abusive strongmen that are now running rampant. Kelley Beaucar Vlahos ...

Afghan security forces are strained to the limit and unable to stop rampant violence fracturing the country, as fighting has intensified between government forces and the Taliban. With the U.S ...

Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, seen here in 2014, is a member of a group of exiled warlords and other leaders who want the Taliban to widen the makeup of Afghanistan's government and include ...

Warlords remain a barrier Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy and accountability, blocking a new generation from leading the country toward progress and development.

Violence flares repeatedly in Afghanistan. Last week, rival warlords Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek, and Gen. Atta Mohammed, a Tajik, clashed farther to the east, ...

The U.S. collaborated with Afghan warlords and crooked powerbrokers, lining their pockets with billions of taxpayer dollars and turning a blind eye to systemic corruption in the rebuilding effort ...