Twenty years ago today, Afghanistan’s most famous anti-Taliban guerrilla fighter, Ahmad Shah Massoud, was killed. He led a pocket of resistance from the north of Kabul in the hard-to-penetrate Panjshir Valley, an area that the Taliban say they have again recaptured. We look back at the legacy of Massoud.
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