Stories from Afghanistan and India
Two provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban within 24 hours, local officials confirmed to The National. Government-aligned forces retreated from Sheberghan in Jowzjan province in the north on Saturday. This came a day after Zaranj, the capital of the south-western Nimruz province […]
Afghan Vice-President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum arrived in Kabul last Sunday, after weeks of widespread protests in the country’s north, his traditional bastion, demanding that the government allow the self-exiled leader to return. Gen. Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek veteran of […]
Supporters have hailed his comeback but others are dismayed by a lack of justice
Abdul Rashid Dostum narrowly escaped the attack that left 14 dead
Accusations that Abdul Rashid Dostum ordered the rape of a former ally are unresolved