Mohammad Zahir Shah, 92 ... Nevertheless, King Zahir used his stature as royalty to win development aid from both the United States and the Soviet Union -- a remarkable achievement during the ...

Sitting in his villa outside of Rome, Afghanistan's exiled king, Zahir Shah, 86, told NEWSWEEK's ... After the danger from the Soviet Union passed, Afghanistan was abandoned not only by America ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s last king ... bordering the Soviet Union and linking Asia to the Middle East magnified the country’s importance. But Zahir Shah managed to keep it clear ...

The constitution was the blueprint of the country's last King, Mohammad Zahir Shah. Yet under a decade later ... This became significantly worse when the former Soviet Union invaded the country in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned ... During the Cold War, Afghanistan's location bordering the Soviet Union and linking Asia to the Middle ...

Word came yesterday that the man the design honored, King Mohammad Zahir Shah, died in Kabul at age ... of his country from both Britain and Russia, and was the last Afghan monarch for whom ...

An associate of former Afghan King Zahir ... stopover visit in Rome around 18 March on his way back to Afghanistan from a state visit to Berlin. Karzai's stop in Rome may give Zahir Shah an ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – An honor guard lowered the body of Afghanistan's last king into a bullet-riddled hillside tomb Tuesday, as dignitaries, lawmakers and relatives said goodbye to the man they ...

His years as king ... Daoud Shah who skilfully played off the Soviet Union and America to get money for roads, schools and hospitals, mostly in Kabul, in the cold war. But it was Zahir who did ...

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 ...