Afghan Resistance Update: clashes with Taliban expand

Resistance progress:

Atlas News posted the following:

“Fighting has greatly intensified between resistance fighters of the National Resistance Front (NRF) and T-bag militants in areas surrounding the #Panjshir Valley. While there has been sporadic fighting between the two sides in the past two weeks, this appears to be the most significant combat since #Kabul fell. Acting Afghan President and leader of the NRF, Amrullah Saleh, has reported that al-Q@eda militants are backing T-ban militants are actively involved in fighting. While there have been reports of casualties on both sides, the T-ban appears to be taking significant losses (specific numbers are largely unreliable), mostly due to resistance positions in the unforgiving valleys and mountainsides that have long seen the region unconquerable.

Resistance fighters continue to hold significant ground in Doshi District, Baghlan Province, and Charikar District, Parian Province. Fighting has expanded northward, with speculation that the resistance fighters are moving to secure border access to #Tajikstan to open up supply routes. Lately, there has been a lot of false claims from pro-Tban and Pakistani media outlets regularly claiming Panjshir has fallen, or that Saleh and NRF leader Ahmad Massoud have fled the country. Likewise with any conflict there are over inflated casualty counts by both sides on social media that are impossible to verify.”

This post follows recent claims that Al Qaeda forces arrived in Panjshir to back the Taliban forces. If the specifics offered by Atlas are true, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) appears to be accomplishing their goals for the time being.

With ground gained and held, and conflicts sporadically appearing throughout the valley, peace seems to be well-beyond the horizon for opposition forces.