Ahmad Massoud

A leading figure in the Afghan resistance has retained a Washington lobbyist to seek military and financial support in the United States for a fight against the Taliban, according to a lobbying contract and a representative of the…

Ahmad Massoud, the founder of the National Resistance Front in Panjshir, has not left Afghanistan and is in a safe place, amid the Taliban claiming to have taken control of the majority of the valley. The son of anti-Soviet military leader…

<!-- -->"The NRF in principle agree to solve the current problems," Ahmad Massoud said.The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley north of Kabul said on Sunday he welcomed proposals from…

In what seems to be a complete victory for the Taliban, opposition fighters in the last bastion of anti-insurgent territory in Afghanistan — Panjshir — are preparing a surrender agreement in the absence of resources and international…

<!-- -->In a Washington Post opinion piece published on Thursday, Ahmad Massoud appealed to the West for support.Dubai: Ahmad Massoud, leader of Afghanistan's last major outpost of anti-Taliban resistance, said on Sunday he hoped to…

The Taliban have not been able to capture Panjshir because of the location of the valley, which makes it a natural fortress. (Reuters)Massoud said he hoped to hold peaceful talks with the Islamist movement that seized power in Kabul a week…