Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan President, who was assassinated today in Kabul, was a patrician figure who had played many crucial roles in his nation’s politics over the past forty years, and ...

Burhanuddin Rabbani was charged with negotiating with the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 20, 2011 — -- Afghanistan's struggle to make peace with the Taliban received a serious blow today when ...

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 ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has given up trying to talk to the Taliban, saying in a video released on Saturday that Pakistan holds the only key to making peace with insurgents and must do more to ...

Pakistan today described as "false and baseless" the Afghan government's allegation that it had evidence of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination being planned on the outskirts of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suicide bombers on Tuesday evening assassinated Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president and the chairman of the High Peace Council, at his residence in a high security area just 100 meters from ...

In the spring of 1974, Afghan state police stormed Kabul University to arrest Burhanuddin Rabbani, then a renowned professor of Islamic jurisprudence. An impassioned orator and a graduate of Egypt's ...

Reporting from Afghanistan, Morning Edition's Renee Montagne talks to Salahuddin Rabbani. President Hamid Karzai recently appointed him chairman of the High Peace Council, which is tasked with ...