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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – 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, died Monday, ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and foreign troops beefed up security in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday ahead of the state funeral for the country's last king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, who died at the ...

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 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was buried on Tuesday at a state funeral where thousands bid farewell to the monarch remembered for his peaceful reign who became ...

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 ...

As king of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah used to golf, ski, shoot partridge and fish for trout in the Hindu Kush. Today the 86-year-old Shah lives in quiet exile in Rome, confining himself to the ...