As they withdraw, coalition forces will leave behind in southern Afghanistan a slew of local security forces at odds with each other. By Matthieu Aikins The 40-year reign of the former king, which ...

Mohammad Zahir Shah, 92, the king of Afghanistan who emerged from forced exile in 2002 to become the ceremonial "father of the nation" after the Taliban's retreat, died July 23 in Kabul. He had been ...

A nimble survivor during four decades as king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, who died yesterday at 92, avoided assassination and chaos, both of which often threatened in his backward nation.

The last time Afghanistan pinned its hopes on Mohammed Zahir Shah, he was not much more than a boy. In 1933, as a 19-year-old Prince, he witnessed the assassination of his father, King Nadir Shah, and ...

Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, has died, President Hamid Karzai said ...

ROME — Afghanistan’s former king, who is trying to assemble a broad coalition of Afghans against the Taliban regime, told visiting U.S. lawmakers Sunday that he would welcome foreign military ...

Afghanistan mourns the loss of its former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, who died at age 92 after a long illness. Government offices are closed and flags are flying at half-staff for the man whose reign ...

Ahmad Shah Khan Zaher was born on September 23 1934 in the Arg-i-Shahi Palace, Kabul, the third of King Zahir’s and Queen Humaira’s eight children. He was educated at the Estequal High School, a ...

The owner of a home-health agency in Michigan was sentenced Monday to 84 months in prison for Medicare fraud. Zahir Shah, 49, of West Bloomfield Township had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, has died, President ...

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