At attack at his home in Kabul has left former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani dead, "two government sources" tell The Associated Press. Reuters also reports that Rabbani, who most recently was ...

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 ...

A suicide bomber fitted with an exploding turban killed the former Afghan president — who the US hoped would negotiate peace with the Taliban. Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed yesterday at his home in ...

File image of High Peace Council Chairman Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani -- High Peace Council Chairman Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed in a suicide bombing in front of his residence in Kabul, an ...

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, whose emotional and tempestuous funeral took place only hours ago, was assassinated this week in Kabul as part of an elaborate plot. As The New York Times ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KABUL — A surging crowd of mourners on Friday touched and kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber ...

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, a former Afghan president in charge of negotiating with the Taliban, was killed Tuesday by a suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy. Margaret Warner gets the latest details, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The eldest son of the slain former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was chosen Saturday to replace his father as head of the council charged with overseeing reconciliation ...

Anand Gopal is an independent journalist covering Afghanistan and the Middle East. Because of a suicide attacker with a bomb in his turban, Afghanistan's dim prospects for peace just got dimmer. The ...