The appointment of the former president Burhanuddin Rabbani as head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council last year came as a surprise to many. His efforts on behalf of the current president, Hamid ...

Exactly how did yesterday’s assassination of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani unfold? As official investigators continue working on that question, his relatives, friends, and a member of ...

Where the embrace of violent death seems like destiny. [ opinion ] There was poetic justice to the veteran Afghan jihadi leader Burhanuddin Rabbani's death yesterday at the hands of anti-state ...

WATCH: Thousands of mourners gathered for the funeral ceremony for former Afghan President Burhannudin Rabbani in Kabul. (Video by RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan) Thousands of mourners gathered in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Afghans have gathered to mourn assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani as ...

File image of High Peace Council Chairman Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani -- High Peace Council Chairman Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed in a suicide bombing in front of his residence in Kabul, an ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan has awarded posthumously two former Afghan political figures, Ahmad Shah Masud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, with the country's third-highest honor, the Order of Ismoili Somoni.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Afghans wept, vowed revenge and threatened the government on Friday in an outpouring of anger at the burial of ...

An Islamic scholar-turned-politician, Rabbani became head of the Islamist Jamiat-e-Islami party in 1972 and, after the Soviet invasion of 1979, helped lead a Mujahideen group against the Russians.