Ahmad Shah Massoud, nicknamed the “Lion of Panjshir,” was one of the main leaders of the Afghan mujahedeen, self-styled holy warriors who defeated the Soviets in 1989.

He is the son and successor to the legendary commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, a resistance leader against both the Soviets and the Taliban until the latter assassinated him on Sept. 9, 2001.

Afghan men wave a flag above the portrait of militia leader Ahmad Massoud (L) and his father, the late commander Ahmad Shah Massoud (R), in Paryan district of Panjshir province on August 23, as the ...

Massoud, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, said his supporters were ready to fight if Taliban forces tried to invade the valley.

Tajikistan has awarded two deceased Afghan political and military leaders, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and legendary Afghan guerilla leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, with the Order of Ismoili ...

Boys paste a poster of national hero Ahmad Shah Masud on a wall in Panjshir Province earlier this month. For many Afghans, Masud, who died at the age of 48, is known as a war hero and military ...

Ahmad Shah sits in the cemetery near his village of Patan Khel where his two brothers are buried. He said that when the Taliban took over Afghanistan last year, villagers saw divine intervention.