Troops loyal to ousted vice president manage to reclaim three districts in Afghanistan

According to local sources quoted by the New York Times newspaper, the Taliban were displaced after the death of 15 of their soldiers while ten others were captured. This is the first fight since the Taliban took the capital, the last bastion of the country they lacked.

The Afghan news agency Pajhwok confirmed that forces loyal to Saleh led by the anti-Taliban commander Abdul Hamid Dadgar announced the capture of three districts, Banu, Puli Hisar and Dih Salah, although the Taliban did not comment on the matter.

Shortly afterwards, the commander himself informed Iranian channel IranIntl that his forces were advancing towards the district of Jenan with the intention of reclaiming the whole province, according to the newspaper, to which local sources reported that around 60 Taliban fighters were killed or wounded in the counterattack.

Saleh became a defender of the ousted Afghan government and claimed legitimacy as president after the president fled Achraf Ghani during the capture of the capital Kabul and later asylum in the United Arab Emirates.

The Taliban are negotiating a transfer of power with political leaders in the overthrown government and the opposition such as former President Hamid Karzai, the Europa Press news agency reported.

Taliban-resistant forces are starting to concentrate in the Panjshir Valley under the leadership of guerrilla leader Ahmad Massoud and Saleh, Sputnik news agency reported.

Between August 6 and 14, the Taliban regained control of all the provincial capitals of Afghanistan and on the 15th they entered Kabul, with which they regained power after two decades of military intervention, first by the United States and then by NATO, which ended in resounding failure and which will be completed at the end of this month.

The Taliban affirmed that they aspired to a “complete handover” of power and at the same time affirmed that they would hold national negotiations in the coming days to form “a transparent, inclusive and Islamic government”.