Its subject, Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Tajik commander who had, over more than 20 years, fought the Red Army and then the Taliban, was assassinated by Al Qaeda suicide bombers on Sept. 9, 2001, in a ...

WITH ANTI-TALIBAN FORCES still unable to rally behind one leader, the death of Ahmed Shah Massoud becomes all the more lamentable. Massoud, known as the Lion of the Panjshir, headed the Northern ...

NPR's Michael Sullivan in Kabul reports on today's ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the assassination of legendary mujahedin leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. Massoud was killed by two suspected ...

The Sept. 9, 2001, assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Massoud is a dark little corner on the early 21st century chessboard. Al-Qaeda’s killing of the anti-Taliban commander is often said ...

The two Arab TV journalists who had been hanging around for weeks to secure an interview with the storied Afghan military commander Ahmad Shah Massoud finally got their chance to speak with him on ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Black flags fluttered from nearly every rooftop in the capital Monday, and portraits of a man with craggy features and fox-like eyes adorned butcher shops, bakeries, ambulance ...

Eighteen years after the assassination of revered anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, his only son is hoping to continue the mission against the insurgents by jumping into Afghanistan's chaotic ...

Though dated, the 2001 National Geographic film, "Afghanistan Revealed", provides good background on the fighting that brings us to the point we are at now. The film focuses on the character and ...

While most Americans were transfixed by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, David Gaines found himself also fixated on a country 7,000 miles away, searching for more information about an Afghan ...