After the winter lull, Taliban forces pursue opposing militants in Badakhshan

KABUL

- Aman Al-Din Mansour, one of the military leaders of the Afghan government, led by the Taliban movement, said that a group of 10 armed people linked to the so-called resistance fronts that reject the rule of the Taliban, attacked the headquarters of the "Islamic Emirate", as he described it, in the Kohistan district. In Badakhshan Province, in the far north-east of the country, a number of Taliban fighters were wounded.

This statement is an official confirmation after a previous silence of tension in some of the hills of the northern regions. Since the day before yesterday, the government launched a military combing campaign in the areas witnessing the movement of militants opposed to the Taliban government, which resulted in the killing of 9 of them and the capture of the tenth.

Yesterday, the official Afghan Bachter News Agency quoted Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan government, that the Afghan Special Forces, formed of elite Taliban fighters, had killed a number of what it described as seditionists, during yesterday's operation in Kohistan District, and that a shelter was found. The armed group and the arrest of a number of them. Social media accounts close to the Taliban have published photographs of the dead and those arrested in Badakhshan Province.

Inamullah Semanghani, deputy spokesman for the Afghan government, published pictures of what he said were government militants led by field commander Maulvi Amanuddin Mansour, with his gunmen on a hill in the Kohistan district, after completing what he described as a "liquidation" operation for a number of militants opposed to the Taliban government.

This comes in light of reports of intermittent confrontations in various regions of Afghanistan between government forces and armed opposition groups during the past days, and observers estimate that they are linked to ISIS, specifically the Khorasan Province, or what it calls itself the resistance fronts, which are under various names, some of which raise their elements. Pictures of Ahmed Masoud, the leader of the so-called Afghan National Resistance Front.

The opposition loyal to Ahmed Masoud is still active in northern Afghanistan, despite its military defeat months ago (Getty Images)

Ahmed Masoud had previously announced his opposition to the current government in a video speech to him from outside the country, on March 25, in which he said that he had contacted the Taliban movement, and that his front was ready to hear any solutions that could lead to solving the country’s problems and establishing a mechanism that could Through which everyone can live together in peace.

In his statements, Massoud stressed that Afghanistan needs a government based on the will of the people and obtaining its legitimacy from them, and during the past period there have been many endeavors and we wanted to convey our message clearly to them that Afghanistan needs a government based on the will of the people and a system that enjoys the legitimacy of the Afghan people and not From the outside, but, unfortunately, despite all efforts, they did not accept this solution, and insisted on continuing the fighting.

From his place of residence in exile, Massoud called for reassembling the capabilities of the former regular security forces, saying, "We assure everyone that the resistance continues its struggle for a prosperous, free and independent Afghanistan and against all occupation and tyranny, and the popular resistance has been formed in different forms and dimensions inside and outside Afghanistan, and we are grateful for this Standing and protecting our people inside and outside Afghanistan, and reviving and revitalizing the capabilities of the security forces, including the police, army and national security, which we consider an urgent necessity for Afghanistan today and tomorrow.”

Hotter after the lull of winter

It is noteworthy that with the end of the winter season and the advent of spring, the security file began to witness, in part, and in some areas of Afghanistan, some events and tensions that were absent during the past months, although the security situation is still largely stable.

Kabul and a number of other areas have witnessed a number of bombings that have left dozens dead and wounded since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, some of which targeted government militants with roadside bombs, in addition to targeting a money changer’s market in Kabul, and the Buli Khushti Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in Kabul.

A reality that prompted the government to tighten security measures and raise the state of alert in the streets and gates of Kabul, in addition to searches and searches of homes that have been going on for weeks, in search of any stored weapons, and resulted in the seizure of large quantities of weapons, explosives, live ammunition and military equipment in dozens of homes in cable and other states.