The countryside in northern Afghanistan, parts of which was under the control of Defense Minister Massoud remained calm and some reconstruction took place.

Ahmad Shah Massoud remained the only major anti-Taliban leader inside Afghanistan who was able to defend vast parts of his territory against the Taliban.

Since early 1999, Ahmad Shah Massoud was the only main leader able to defend his territory against the Taliban and their allies and as such remained as the main de facto political and military leader of the United Front recognized by members of all the different ethnic groups.

A part of the United Front military factions such as Junbish-i Milli or Hezb-e Wahdat, however, did not fall under the direct control of Massoud but remained under their respective regional or ethnic leaders.

Ahmad Shah Massoud remained the only major anti-Taliban leader inside Afghanistan who was able to defend vast parts of his territory against the Pakistan army, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

Leaders such as Ahmad Shah Massoud received only minor aid compared to Hekmatyar and some of the other parties, although Massoud was named the " Afghan who won the cold war " by the Wall Street Journal.

Of roughly 45, 000 Pakistani, Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers fighting against the forces of Massoud only 14, 000 were Afghan.

::" The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud.

In early 2001 alone, of roughly 45, 000 Pakistani, Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers fighting against the forces of Massoud only 14, 000 were Afghan.

The first attempt on Massoud's life had been carried out by Hekmatyar and two Pakistani ISI agents in 1975, when Massoud was only 22 years old.

The most prominent example for this is Abou Hassira ( owner of a straw mat ), a descendant of a long line of kabbalists and pietists from Morocco ( born 1807 in Morocco, died 1880 in Egypt, buried in the village of Demitiouh, near Damanhour, in the Governorate of Beheira ), whose real name Yaccov Ben Massoud has almost been forgotten, as he has become identified as Rabbi Abou Hassira since his pilgrimage from his homeland to Jerusalem, during which the boat he was on sank, yet he was miraculously saved because he hung on to his straw mat ( hassira ), which had been his only possession.

National Geographic concluded in its documentary " Inside the Taliban ": " The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud ".

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Aḥmad Šāh Mas ' ūd ; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001 ) was a political and military leader in Afghanistan.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

* It is announced that Ahmed Shah Massoud, a military leader of the Northern Alliance, died on September 9 from wounds received during a Taliban suicide attack.

* 2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.

When Massoud returned unharmed to Kabul, the Taliban leader who had received him as his guest was killed by other senior Taliban for failing to execute Massoud while the possibility had presented itself.

The role of the Pakistani military has been described by international observers as well as by the anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud as a " creeping invasion ".

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( right ) with Pashtun anti-Taliban leader Abdul Qadir ( brother of Abdul Haq ) ( left ) as part of the pre 9 / 11 2001 grand Pashtun-Tajik-Hazara-Uzbek alliance against the Taliban

In early 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud with ethnic leader from all of Afghanistan addressed the European Parliament in Brussels asking the international community to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.

Primary advocates for supporting Massoud included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, Michael Johns and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of US support under the Reagan Doctrine.

Tomb of Afghan mujahideen resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley.

Intelligence " whistleblower " Julie Sirrs claimed that anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud told her he had " proof that Unocal had provided money that helped the Taliban take Kabul 1996 ".

* Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.

* September 9-Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massoud was assassinated.

* The Afghan Northern Alliance named General Mohammad Fahim as the new leader to replace the deceased Ahmed Shah Massoud.

The issue is, as leader Massoud Rajavi has said many times, whoever wants to escape from Ashraf will be punished with death and execution.

Saladin ( Ghassan Massoud ), leader of the Muslim forces, advances on Kerak, Raynald's castle, to punish him for his crime.

Takhar also holds notoriety as the location where Afghan mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated on 9 September 2001 by suspected al-Qaeda agents.

* Ahmad Shah Massoud, an Afghan military leader Deputy Justice on the Supreme Court of Afghanistan

His son, Massoud Barzani, is the current leader of the KDP and was re-elected as the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan region with 66 % of the popular vote in July 2009.

They were able to secure the selection of Jalal Talabani ( the PUK leader ) as President of Iraq, while Massoud Barzani ( the KDP leader ) became President of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf send more troops against the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan | United Front of Ahmad Shah Massoud than the Afghan Taliban.

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

see video The United Front included beside the dominantly Tajik forces of Massoud and the Uzbek forces of Dostum, Hazara factions and Pashtun forces under the leadership of commanders such as Abdul Haq, Haji Abdul Qadir, Qari Baba or diplomat Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai.

On 9 September 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by two Arab suicide attackers inside Afghanistan and two days later about 3, 000 people became victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

Ahmad Shah Massoud withdrew his forces from Kabul to the northern regions of Afghanistan where he and his former enemy Abdul Rashid Dostum created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, former enemies, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

The United Front included beside the dominantly Tajik forces of Massoud and the Uzbek forces of Dostum, Hazara troops led by Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq and Pashtun forces under the leadership of commanders such as Abdul Haq and Haji Abdul Qadir.

While Massoud united the Tajiks, Hazara and Uzbeks as well as some Pashtun commanders under his United Front command, the famed Pashtun commander Abdul Haq received increasing numbers of defecting Pashtun Taliban as " Taliban popularity trended downward ".

Following this incident, Karzai decided to work closely with the United Front ( Northern Alliance ), which was led by Ahmad Shah Massoud.

* In Kunduz, Afghanistan, United Nations special envoy Norbert Holl met with ousted commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to discuss U. N. proposals for an Afghan ceasefire, the demilitarization of Kabul, and the formation of a neutral Afghan Police Force.

Less than a month after the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud and the September 11 attacks in the United States, in October 2001, the United States armed forces assisted by British Armed Forces provided massive air support to United Front ( Northern Alliance ) ground forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.

When the Taliban took power in late 1996, Atta Noor served as a commander in the anti-Taliban United Front ( Northern Alliance ) under Ahmad Shah Massoud.

When the Taliban took power in late 1997, Atta Noor served as a commander in the anti-Taliban United Front ( Northern Alliance ) under Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Its chairman, Ahmad Zia Massoud, is the younger brother of the former United Front leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was assassinated in 2001.

The United Front ( in full: United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ; acronym: UF ;, Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islami-yi Milli bara-yi Nijat-i Afghanistan ), known in the West and Pakistan as the Northern Alliance, was a military-political umbrella organization created by the Islamic State of Afghanistan in late 1996 under the leadership of the then Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud.