Ex-Afghan warlord is 'suspended'
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Afghanistan's attorney general says he has suspended former warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum from the government.
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The United States has brokered a  cease-fire between a renegade Afghan militia leader and the  embattled governor of the western province of Herat,  Washington's envoy to Kabul said Tuesday.
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Kenya Wildlife Service director Evans Mukolwe is suspended on corruption charges, officials say.
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A leading Afghan Taleban fighter is captured after a shootout in south-west Pakistan, police say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has fallen out with some of his lieutenants, who blame him for the rebels' failure to disrupt the landmark Afghan presidential election, the US military said yesterday.
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Powerful regional Afghan commander Ismail  Khan was effectively dismissed as governor of Herat city  Saturday and declined a promotion to the cabinet of President  Hamid Karzai.
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A former Taliban front-line military commander has been arrested in connection with the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan in October, a senior Pakistan official said Saturday.
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was forced to cancel a trip to a provincial capital after a rocket hit near the landing site for his helicopter.
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Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested since U.S.-led troops ousted it from power in 2001.
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A former Afghan warlord accused of torture and hostage-taking was refused freedom by an Old Bailey judge, who ordered he must remain in prison ahead of a re-trial next year.
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The reign of one of Afghanistan&#39;s most powerful and most colourful warlords appeared to have ended in chaos yesterday after a mob of his supporters clashed with American troops and set
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The Afghan government on Saturday announced the removal of the powerful governor of Herat, in western Afghanistan, one of the country&#39;s longest standing warlords.
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Afghan warlord General Dostum escapes an apparent assassination attempt, says report.
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KABUL : Three protesters were hurt in the western Afghan city of Herat after the government sacked an Afghan warlord as governor in a bid to strengthen President Hamid Karzai&#39;s authority ahead of elections.
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The British Parliament's lower house on Monday suspended a lawmaker accused of concealing his financial dealings with Saddam Hussein's government.
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The commander of an Israeli army unit in Gaza who was accused by his fellow officers of emptying his magazine into the body of a dying 13-year-old Palestinian girl has been suspended from duty pending an investigation.
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Iran freezes bank accounts of a former Afghan warlord with links to the Taleban and al-Qaeda, the UN says.