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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"If President Bush doesn't help us, these terrorists will damage the US and Europe very soon." -- Ahmad Shah Massoud, speaking before European Parliament in April, 2001 KABUL, Afghanistan -- Six ...

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 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 ...

(Reuters) -Ahmad Massoud, leader of Afghanistan's last major outpost of anti-Taliban resistance, said on Sunday he hoped to hold peaceful talks with the Islamist movement that seized power in ...

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.