Atta Mohammad Noor, Governor of the Balkh province, speaks during an interview in Mazar-i-Sharif KABUL (Reuters) - Two of Afghanistan's most notorious regional strongmen fled on Saturday as the ...

As Afghan security forces battle the Taliban and other militant groups who are threatening to overrun parts of the previously stable region, RFE/RL correspondent Frud Bezhan on June 23 spoke with Atta ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani prays during a peace and security cooperation conference in Kabul, Afghanistan June 6, 2017.EUTERS/Omar Sobhani KABUL (Reuters) - One of the main parties behind ...

One of Afghanistan's most powerful regional politicians has vowed to defy his ouster as governor of the northern province of Balkh, posing a potential threat to the shaky Western-backed governing ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's bid to oust one of the country's most powerful provincial governors has run into strong resistance that has deepened political uncertainty just as ...

The dangerous ongoing showdown between the Kabul government and Atta Mohammad Noor, a warlord-turned-governor of Balkh province, is inescapably about two things: money and muscle. Although this ...

In Afghanistan, the northern province of Balkh is often cited as an example of what's going right in the country. Business there is booming. Farmers in the province don't grow opium poppies anymore, ...

KABUL -- At least 11 people have been killed in a suicide attack on a Kabul rally by supporters of Mohammad Atta Noor, the powerful governor of Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province. Noor, an ...