As Massoud walked down a Kabul street one cold Sunday morning, looking for a day job to feed his family, pickup trucks full of armed Taliban members stopped in front of him. He told CBS News the men ...

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 ...

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 ...

A retired Recon Marine who conducted civilian rescues within Afghanistan, a former Navy SEAL and an ex-Pentagon chief are among the figures clamoring for Congress to hear from a top Afghan resistance ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

KABUL - Before there was 9/11 in America, there was 9/9 in Afghanistan. On the eve of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, assassins working for Osama bin Laden killed Ahmed Shah Massoud, ...

The obvious media hero of the Afghan war only got his 15 minutes on American TV in death. On September 9, suicide bombers disguised as a TV crew blew up Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, ...

The “journalists”‘ first question was: “If you recapture all of Afghanistan, what will be your attitude to Osama bin Laden?” They didn’t wait for an answer. One of the two French-speaking North ...