The BBC and the AFP news agency could not verify the claims of the Taliban and the NRF from any independent source. The Taliban’s and the NRF’s reciprocal claims include comments from Iran on Afghanistan’s mountainous terrain.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatib Jadeh told reporters today that the news coming from Panshir was “really worrying”. The attack has been strongly condemned.
The Afghan capital, Kabul, fell to the Taliban on August 15. The last US troops left Kabul on August 31. This marked the end of the longest war in US history. After the Taliban took control of Kabul, an anti-Taliban resistance war was formed under the leadership of Ahmed Masood, a local leader from Panshir. There, the NRF was formed by the commanders of the Afghan military along with the militias led by Masud.
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