Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari: احمد شاه مسعود, Persian pronunciation: [ʔæhmæd ʃɒːh mæsʔuːd]; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. [4] He was a guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to 1989.

On 9 September 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists in Khwaja Bahauddin District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan.

2019年2月23日 · Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Taliban and was assassinated by al-Qaeda in 2001.

Ahmad Massoud (Dari: احمد مسعود, IPA: [ʔæhmæd mæsʔuːd]; born July 10, 1989) is an Afghan politician who is the founder and leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. He is the eldest son of prominent Afghan anti-Soviet military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, and was appointed as the CEO of the Massoud Foundation in November 2016. [1] .

2021年9月29日 · Renowned British journalist Sandy Gall’s biography of Massoud comes at a critical time for Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Massoud fought the Soviets from his home territory in the Panjshir Valley, and...

2021年9月9日 · Two days before 9/11, an Al-Qaeda suicide squad posing as journalists sat down for an interview with Ahmad Shah Massoud, the last major commander resisting the jihadist group's...

… and his minister of defense Ahmad Shah Masoud, formed the Northern Alliance soon after. When the Taliban seized control of Mazār-e Sharīf in 1998, the alliance was confined largely to the Panjshīr Valley in the northeast, which remained the only major holdout to Taliban rule.

2024年9月9日 · Two days before the 9/11 attacks, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated in Afghanistan. His legacy is woven with threads of both reverence and controversy.

2020年9月7日 · For the last two decades, Ahmad Shah Massoud has been lionised as the national hero of Afghanistan. In this piece, Ahmed-Waleed Kakar sheds light on the dark history of the veteran Afghan warlord before his elevation to sainthood in the popular imagination .

Ahmad Shah Massoud was a prominent Afghan military commander who led the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the Afghan civil war.