In Kabul, all roads around the airport were sealed off and two dozen police were stationed around the house where Zahir Shah and his family will live. Last week, there was an assassination attempt on ...

Since his return in April, Zahir Shah has lived almost as a recluse in a house in a diplomatic area of Kabul, a few blocks from the royal compound that was his childhood home. Having renounced all ...

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 ...

A C-130 military transport plane made a graceful landing at Kabul airport Thursday, signaling the end of Zahir Shah's 29-year exile. An honor guard stood in front of hundreds of supporters and ...

Ahmad Shah, who remains Head of the House of Barakzai ... and respect for him remained, King Zahir lived for the rest of his life in his old palace in Kabul, until his death in 2007.

Kabul police chief Mohammad Zahir Zahir said three or four attackers were holed up in a neighboring house that had been empty when they occupied it. He said the house is about 800 yards away from ...

Zahir Shah insists that he wants no formal position after his long-awaited return to his old capital of Kabul today. "He is coming home to die - that is what he keeps telling us," says a confidant ...

Afghanistan's former monarch Zahir Shah returned to his homeland today amid hopes that he will help unite the country in peace. RFE/RL correspondent Askold Krushelnycky, who was at Kabul ...

He was one of 14 members of the royal family held under house ... 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 ...