During the first Taliban regime, from 1996 to 2001, India actually sheltered and supported the Northern Alliance of Mohammad Najibullah and Ahmad Shah Massoud in their efforts to oust the Taliban ...

Some important names included Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Abdur Rab Rasul Sayyaf, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Ahmad Shah Massoud et al. The late Maj Gen Naseerullah Babar, then a brigadier, was Inspector ...

Since the Taliban’s resurgence in 2021, South Asia has faced profound geopolitical shifts, revealing Taliban fractures and ...

The Council for the Protection of Jihadi Values held a meeting in Kabul where they strongly criticized the <a target=_blank ...

Pakistan-Taliban war: Amid rising tensions with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, Pakistan is allegedly plotting to trigger a civil war in Afghanistan, a fear which has escalated after ISI chief ...

The movement of Taliban (translated into Italian as “students of the Koran”) is a political-ideological, Islamic fundamentalist and armed group ...

The book’s final chapter takes place in Takhar Province and describes the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir. Feared by the Soviets—whom he had fought to a standstill in his ...

Mena Massoud is counting down the days until he and fiancée Emily Shah tie the knot — twice. “It’s been fun! Emily’s doing a lot of the planning,” Massoud, 33, exclusively told Us ...