Taliban claim last hotbed of resistance – News

After heavy fighting, the Taliban brought under their control the province of Panjshir, the last hotbed of resistance by Afghan forces opposed to a new Islamist regime, Bilal Karimi, spokesman for the radical group, now fully in power, reported on Friday. after the withdrawal of all Western troops who militarily occupied the country for 20 years at the cost of a humiliating defeat.

“The Panjshir fell under the control of the Islamic Emirate (as the Taliban call themselves),” Karimi wrote on her account. Twitter.

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A source from the Sputnik news agency at Kabul police headquarters confirmed this information.

“The province of Panjshir fell, all the resistance fighters or soldiers were captured by the combatants, Amrullah Saleh and Ahmad Massoud fled,” said the source.

However Saleh, the first vice president of Afghanistan and one of the main political leaders of the armed resistance, claimed that he had not left the country and that the resistance movement against the Taliban continues.

“The resistance continues and will continue. I am here in my land, for my land and I defend its dignity,” he tweeted.

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Located in northeastern Afghanistan, the mountainous province of Panjshir was the last bastion of resistance to the Taliban who took over power on August 15.

Meanwhile, a resistance spokesman Ali Maisam Nazary said they suffered further attacks by Taliban forces overnight, but did not confirm that they had lost control of the strategic region northeast of. Kabul, the capital of the country.

Gunshots were heard Friday night in Kabul as rumors spread that the valley had fallen, but the Taliban made no official statement and a local resident told AFP news agency by phone that the rumors were false.

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Fighters of the National Resistance Front (FNR), made up of anti-Taliban militias and former Afghan security forces, have large reserves of weapons in the Panjshir valley.

These forces opposed to fundamentalists are led by Saleh and guerrilla leader Ahmad Massoud, whose father, known as the Lion of Panjshir, was one of the most important military commanders in the 1980s and 1990s.

On the night of August 30 to 31, the United States concluded its intervention in Afghanistan and the withdrawal of its troops.