DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan has awarded posthumously two former Afghan political figures, Ahmad Shah Masud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, with the country's third-highest honor, the Order of Ismoili Somoni.

The city of Paris has inaugurated a pathway in the Champs-Elysees gardens named after the late Afghan resistance fighter and anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Masud. The inauguration ceremony on March 27 ...

KABUL -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has blown himself up near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people, officials ...

Ahmad Shah Masood, Afghanistan's most powerful guerrilla commander and its new defense minister, arrived unannounced in Kabul on Wednesday with 10,000 troops to impose order on the embattled city.

Afghanistan's top opposition commander Ahmad Shah Masood is alive and recovering in hospital, his brother insisted here Tuesday, refuting persistent reports of Masood's death after an assassination ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The legendary Afghan guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah Masood died today from wounds suffered in a suicide bomb attack last Sunday, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said. The ...

Anti-Taliban military commander Ahmad Shah Masood's health is "very critical" and getting worse following an assassination attempt this week, a senior opposition official told AFP Thursday.