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... In Afghanistan, Assessing A Rebel Leader's Legacy Ten ...

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 ...

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 ...