When the CIA decided to take back thousands of stinger missiles from Afghanistan in the 1980s, fearing they would fall into the hands of Iran, they knew of only one powerful warlord they could trust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahmad Massoud, son of the slain hero of the anti-Soviet resistance Ahmad Shah Massoud, waves as he arrives to attend a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Ahmad Massoud, son of Afghanistan's slain anti-Soviet resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, speaks during an interview ...

For much of this week, Ahmad Shah Massoud has watched from a window in an old Soviet military camp near here as the crimson sunset has spread, a few minutes later every day, across the snowbound ...

Ahmad Massoud is in a remote base in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province. He is the son and successor to the legendary commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, a resistance leader against both the Soviets and the ...

An Afghan man holds a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud in December 2001 - Copyright AFP - An Afghan man holds a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud in December 2001 ...

In many ways, it was a rekindling of the French fascination with his father Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the 'Lion of ...

Aug 19 (Reuters) - The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, has pledged to hold out against the Taliban from his stronghold in the ...

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 cave in ...

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 ...

DUBAI, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, said he will not surrender areas under his control to the ...