Afghanistan International: The UN said the Afghanistan Freedom Front, National Resistance Front, Green Unit of Afghanistan Green Trend, Afghanistan Guardians National Front, the Afghanistan Independence Front, the Afghanistan Liberation Movement, the Afghanistan Republican Front, the Afghanistan United Front, the Andarab Resistance Front, the Freedom and Justice Movement, Homeland Soldiers Front, the Islamic Liberation Front of
Amu: Abdul Rashid Dostum, leader of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, urged the Taliban not to dismiss calls for negotiations. Addressing Taliban leaders, including Hibatullah Akhundzada, Dostum warned that continued refusal to engage in talks could result in a conflict that would become difficult to control. “Now there is scattered fighting. God forbid, if
8am: Leaked documents from the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) show that the group has allocated a budget of more than 70 million Afghanis to advance a broad propaganda and media campaign, using media outlets and fake accounts to portray opposition fronts as weak, sow discord among former political leaders and their supporters, instill
Afghanistan International: Residents said the arrests have mainly targeted former Afghan government security personnel and that the number detained may exceed 40. Sources said at least 15 people had been arrested over the past two weeks on accusations of cooperating with the “Afghanistan’s Guardians of the Homeland Front”. Taliban-affiliated media have also released a video
Afghanistan International: The Afghanistan Freedom Front says it killed three Taliban members and wounded two others in an attack on a checkpoint in Kapisa’s Tagab district. The Afghanistan United Front also reported killing a Taliban police member in Kandahar. In a statement, the Afghanistan Freedom Front said it attacked a Taliban position in Tagab district,
Afghanistan International: Local sources in Badakhshan reported clashes on Monday, 7 September, between Afghanistan Freedom Front forces (AFF) and the Taliban in Zebak district. According to the sources, the fighting began on Monday in Zebak. Sources from the AFF also confirmed that its forces were engaged in clashes with the Taliban in the district. Click
Afghanistan International: Hasib’s killing shows that the Taliban is not simply trying to defeat the resistance on the battlefield. It is using counterintelligence to penetrate it from within. The GDI is exploiting real divisions inside the Taliban, creating false ones when necessary, and using supposed defectors and trusted intermediaries to gain access to resistance networks.
Afghanistan International: The National Resistance Front and Afghanistan Freedom Front have called for a common platform among political, civil and armed groups opposing the Taliban, as Cambridge talks seek to bridge key differences. The fifth round of the “Cambridge Afghanistan Series” was held on Friday, 4 September, in Cambridge, Britain, bringing together dozens of political
Afghanistan International: The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has appointed Commander Mukhtar Shoresh, a close associate of Hasib Panjshiri, as his successor following Panjshiri’s recent killing by the Taliban. In a statement on Friday, 4 September, the NRF thanked national and political figures, leaders and members of the public who honoured Panjshiri’s memory by sending
8am: According to the United Front’s claim, the Taliban fighter was killed on Tuesday evening in an operation by the front’s forces along a road in Kohistanat district of Sar-e-Pol province. This comes as the United Front has also reported killing a Taliban official from the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of