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Ahmad Massoud ( Pashto / 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 anti-Soviet military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.
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.
Aug 12, 2022 · At this time last year, as the militant group swallowed up vast swaths of Afghanistan, the son of famous anti-Soviet resistance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud pledged during an exclusive Atlantic Council interview that he’d seek talks with the Taliban.
Apr 27, 2023 · Ahmad Massoud tells The National he is trying to convince the West that his people need support to defy Taliban rule. Thomas Harding. London. 27 April, 2023.
In a rare interview from his hideout in an undisclosed third country, National Resistance Front chief Ahmad Massoud tells Arpan Rai that the battle for Afghanistan’s future is far from over ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), has spent the last two and a half years engaged not only in armed resistance but also in a substantial political struggle against tyranny, oppression, and injustice.
Aug 25, 2021 · The man leading them is Ahmad Massoud, the 32-year-old son of the storied mujahedeen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, stepping into his father’s footsteps 20 years after his death to pick up...
Aug 23, 2021 · Ahmad Massoud, the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was one of the main leaders of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s and was assassinated on September 9, 2001, at the behest of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, is following the footsteps of his father: gathering mujahideen fighters in the Panjshir Valley who are prepared to once again ...
Aug 30, 2021 · Ahmad Massoud: ‘Peace Does Not Mean to Surrender’ The leader of the Afghan anti-Taliban resistance vows to battle in the encircled Panjshir Valley to keep alive his father’s dream.
Aug 25, 2021 · Mr Masoud leads a group of armed rebels from Panjshir, a tiny mountainous province 70km (45 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, that has never succumbed to invaders. It is,...
