Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former guerrilla leader who served as Afghanistan's second president after the 1979-89 Soviet occupation, was assassinated in Kabul on Sept. 20 by a suicide bomber who ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) When Afghanistan”s interim government was sworn in a month ago yesterday, the ceremony included a symbolic departure from the presidential palace by former President ...

The latest assassination in Afghanistan illustrates the immense divides that plague the country. Foreign Policy's Anand Gopal analyzes the death of Afghan political figure Burhanuddin Rabbani ...

Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of the Afghan Peace Council and former president of Afghanistan, was killed in a bombing in the nation's capital.

The former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani says he will support the newly-formed interim government - but has sharply criticised outside intervention in Afghanistan's affairs. We hope this will ...

The Northern Alliance's nominal head, Burhanuddin Rabbani, arrived here Sunday and briefed the government on the situation in Afghanistan, the Emirates' official WAM news agency reported.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A surging crowd of mourners on Friday touched and kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a Taliban ...

When I was Reuters chief correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the mid-1980s, Burhanuddin Rabbani was an Islamic scholar fom Kabul who had become the exiled Peshawar-based leader of Jamiat ...

Supporters of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani accused the government of trying to force them to accept a presidential system, which they say would put too much power in the hands of U.S ...

An Afghan man holds a picture of slain former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, during a protest in Kabul September 27, 2011.

An Afghan man holds a picture of slain former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council, Burhanuddin Rabbani, during a protest in Kabul.An Afghan man holds a picture of slain ...

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.