WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Experts are warning that it might prove counterproductive to extend to Afghanistan the U.S. strategy of forming and paying tribal militias to improve security -- though it has been credited with great successes in Iraq.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Afghan Interior Minister Ali Jalali resigned this week because of the growing influence of warlords on President Hamid Karzai, a report said Friday. Karzai accepted the resignation of Jalali, a close ally and the second most powerful man in the government

MAIMANA, Afghanistan, April 9 (UPI) -- Afghanistan sent soldiers Friday to a provincial capital in a northwestern province that has been overrun by fighters loyal to an Uzbek warlord.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Infighting among Afghan militia soldiers has claimed at least 50 lives in the past two days, Voice of America reported Thursday.

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WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Despite reports that the United States played a significant behind-the-scenes role in activities and outcomes of the recent loya jirga conference in Afghanistan, the Bush administration's key official on the region said at a recent think tank forum that t

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