Ten years ago, the most famous rebel leader in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, was killed by al-Qaida as the opening salvo for the Sept. 11 attacks. Revered by followers, Massoud had led the ...

Ahmad Massoud, exiled leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) and son of the former anti-Soviet mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, poses during an interview for at the ...

Read Slate’s complete coverage of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. BAZARAK, Afghanistan—I have seen Ahmad Shah Massoud’s snow globe. He had two, actually, identical except for some sort ...

In Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud was known as the Lion of Panjshir. And thanks to him, the Panjshir Valley was one of only two places the Taliban never conquered. On Sept. 9, 2001, suicide ...

Ahmad Massoud is the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. In 1998, when I was 9 years old, my father, the mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, gathered his soldiers in a ...

US agents held secret talks with the fabled hero of Afghanistan’s resistance against the Soviets and the Taliban – Ahmad Shah Massoud, the guerrilla commander who famously warned the West ...

For many young people, the story of war in Afghanistan begins with 9/11. They know who Osama Bin Laden is but not many know who Ahmad Shah Massoud was.

Two days before the 9/11 attacks, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated in Afghanistan. His legacy is woven with threads of both reverence and controversy.

Ahmad Massoud, son of the slain hero of the anti-Soviet resistance Ahmad Shah Massoud, waves as he arrives to attend a new political movement in Bazarak 31,018 people played the daily Crossword ...

Ahmad Shah Massoud’s brother Ahmad Wali said in Geneva Tuesday that while their National Resistance Front was “wounded”, thousands of fighters can come back at any time.

Ahmad Massoud, exiled leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) and son of the former anti-Soviet mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, poses during an interview for at the ...