The Taliban’s fiercest opponent and a man known to his followers as the Lion of Panjshir was killed by a suicide bomber just 2 days before the attacks on September 11. Ahmad Shah Massoud was the ...

(Reuters) - The Taliban claimed victory on Monday over opposition forces in Panjshir province, completing their takeover of the country following the stunning capture of Kabul last month and the ...

In Afghanistan, history has a way of repeating itself: Today, much like when the Taliban last seized power in 1996, the rugged Panjshir province is the final redoubt standing in the way of their ...

Eighteen years after the assassination of revered anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, his only son is hoping to continue the mission against the insurgents by jumping into Afghanistan's chaotic ...

While most Americans were transfixed by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, David Gaines found himself also fixated on a country 7,000 miles away, searching for more information about an Afghan ...

Black mourning banners still wave across the steep gorges, pockmarked villages and invisible redoubts that make up the thin sliver of Afghanistan not conquered by the Taliban. They honor the “Lion of ...

Located just north of the capital Kabul, Panjshir is one of the smallest of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. It is of strategic importance, providing a route out of Kabul to the north, where important ...