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Ahmad Shah Massoud

Also known as Afghanistan national hero, Ahmad Shah Masoud, Ahmad Shah Masood, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Ahmed Shah Masood, Ahmed Shah Masoud

Afghan military leader (1953–2001)

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Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military commander who led resistance forces against Soviet invasion in the 1980s and later opposed the Taliban government in the 1990s until his assassination in 2001. He is remembered as a significant figure in modern Afghan history for his role in major conflicts that shaped the country's political landscape.

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Ahmad Shah Massoud (c. 1953 – 9 September 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. Known as the "Lion of Panjshir", he was the foremost commander of the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to 1989. Later, in the 1990s, he led the government's military wing against rival militias, and actively fought against the Taliban and their allies, from the time the regime rose to power in 1996, and until his assassination in 2001.

Massoud came from a Tajik Sunni Muslim background in the Panjshir Valley in northern Afghanistan. He began studying engineering at Polytechnical University of Kabul in the 1970s, where he developed Islamist and anti-communist views. He joined the Jamiat-i Islami of Burhanuddin Rabbani and, in 1975, participated in a failed uprising against President Daoud Khan's government. During the Soviet–Afghan War, he successfully resisted the Soviets from taking the Panjshir Valley. In 1992, he signed the Peshawar Accord, a peace and power-sharing agreement, in the post-communist Islamic State of Afghanistan. He was appointed the Minister of Defense as well as the government's main military commander. The accord was opposed by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and other warlords, who attacked Kabul and initiated the Second Afghan Civil War (1992–1996).