Two days before 9/11, Al Qaeda killed Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Afghan commander who had spent years fighting the Taliban and warning the West about the threat growing under its protection ...
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 ...
An Afghan man holds a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud in December 2001 AFP / JIMIN LAI Two days before 9/11, an Al-Qaeda suicide squad posing as journalists sat down for an interview with Ahmad Shah ...
There are murals and billboards all over Kabul with the face of revered Afghan guerrilla commander Ahmad Shah Massoud AFP / Aamir QURESHI In the streets of Kabul, it is difficult to miss Ahmad Shah ...
Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws that ...
He was an intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV. By Adam Nossiter An intrusive sweep that has spanned several provinces ...
An Afghan man holds a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud in December 2001 – Copyright AFP – Two days before 9/11, an Al-Qaeda suicide squad posing as journalists sat ...