Partially torn posters with the image of slain Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud adorn a wall in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 12, 2021. The assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud on September 9, ...
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 ...