Clashes Erupt in Northern Afghanistan as Taliban Pursue Talks With Former Foes
The Taliban fought deadly battles with budding resistance forces in northern Afghanistan, as political negotiations on a broader governing administration moved in advance in Kabul and access to the city’s U.S.-operate airport remained complicated for thousands of Afghans hoping to flee.
When most of Afghanistan’s military and protection forces collapsed, some of the Taliban’s most dedicated foes have retreated to the Panjshir valley northeast of Kabul, pledging to carry on the battle from the country’s only province not less than Taliban sway.
They include the fallen Afghan republic’s protection minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who claims to be Afghanistan’s legit leader immediately after President Ashraf Ghani abandoned his responsibilities and fled the nation Aug. 15 and Ahmad Massoud, a son of well-known Panjshiri commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Video clip posted on social media confirmed casualties and combating concerning Taliban forces and anti-Taliban militias in the Andarab valley of the northern Baghlan province, adjoining Panjshir, and large convoys of Taliban reinforcements in U.S.-acquired Ford Rangers and Humvees flying the Islamist movement’s white flag.
When the militias in Baghlan are allied with the forces in Panjshir, they acted independently in attacking the Taliban, mentioned Ali Nazary, head of foreign relations for the new National Resistance Front that is centered in Panjshir and contains some 1,000 Afghan military commandos who refused to surrender when the relaxation of the military services melted away, as effectively as some helicopters.
