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Armed resistance against the Taliban is expanding across Afghanistan as new opposition groups emerge and former security personnel join the fight.
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Taliban Power Politics, Tajik Commanders And The Contest For Badakhshan’s Mineral Wealth – OpEd
Sometimes a political rupture begins with something remarkably ordinary. A closed office door. A long wait. A senior official who refuses to meet a subordinate. That appears to be what happened to ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Pannier: Afghan groups battle Taliban near Tajik border
By Bruce Pannier Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban are facing a challenge from at least four different armed groups in the country’s northeastern Badakhshan Province. Two have attacked Taliban positions in ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Afghanistan’s Resistance Is Spreading
The emergence of the Afghanistan United Front (AUF), led by former Afghan army commander Sami Sadat, has drawn attention to Afghanistan’s changing resistance landscape. Since launching its campaign in ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Taliban mayor assassinated by resistance front in Afghanistan amid battles across province
The Taliban-appointed mayor of Faizabad in northeastern Afghanistan was on August 13 assassinated by the National Resistance Front (NRF), according to the insurgent group. Habiburrahman Mansur was ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Afghanistan’s Wakhan Transit Road Is a Long Shot to Connect with China
The road has been officially inaugurated, but China and the Taliban have very different views of its function.
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Afghanistan’s Growing Resistance Tests Taliban Rule
The Taliban still controls Afghanistan's major cities, state institutions, and security forces. Its opponents have not shown that they can seriously challenge that control. But new resistance fronts, ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: The Key Challenges The Taliban Face In Badakhshan – Analysis
The Taliban this month marked the fifth anniversary of its return to power with a military parade in Kabul and other celebrations. But a few hundred kilometers northeast of the capital there was ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Is Badakhshan Becoming the Epicenter of Anti-Taliban Resistance?
On August 9, Taliban officials claimed to have captured 74 light and heavy weapons that were allegedly being smuggled in from Pakistan to support what they termed “subversive and destabilizing ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: A second Taliban official is killed in attack in Afghanistan, as the takeover anniversary nears
KABUL, Afghanistan — The mayor for Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province has been killed in an explosion, officials said, the second high-ranking official of the Taliban administration to be ...
News Afghanistan » Badakhshan » Politics: Afghanistan Opens Road To China, But Trade Link Faces Security Hurdles
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have inaugurated a 121-kilometre road intended to connect the country with China through the remote ...