The National Resistance Front, led by Ahmad Massoud, has a sporadic presence in northern Afghanistan. In reality, there are at least 22 armed opposition groups, according to the United Nations. The knot of arms and financing from abroad
Kabul ( / Agencies) – The National Resistance Front (FRN) accuses the Taliban of perpetrating ethnic cleansing and war crimes in northern Afghanistan. Ali Maisam Nazary, a spokesman for the resistance group opposed to the Islamic Emirate authorities, said that the atrocities committed by the Taliban in some districts of the country are exacerbating social rifts.
In the last month, at least 43 civilians were detained in Panshir province. Some relatives have been asked to pay a ransom (firearms in exchange for the release of their relatives), while others report that detainees are subjected to daily torture.
More than a year after the Taliban’s reconquest of the country, sporadic opposition remains, concentrated mainly in the northern provinces of Afghanistan. Ahmad Massoud – son of the “Lion of Panshir”, a historical anti-Taliban figure, assassinated in 2001 after leading the Northern Alliance against Koranic students – heads the National Resistance Front, the most consolidated group. In his appeal to the West, he focuses on what we fear most: international terrorism: “Afghanistan is becoming a center of terrorism, whose goal is to spread throughout the world,” he recently told Foreign Policy.
According to the latest United Nations report, in addition to Al Qaeda, whose presence is spread throughout the country (although it is unlikely to have the resources to organize attacks abroad), there are at least 22 groups trying to oppose it in some way. to the Islamic Emirate. In some areas, the FRN fights side by side with the Front for the Liberation of Afghanistan (FLA), led by Lieutenant General Yasin Zia, a former Afghan deputy defense minister. He and Massoud – currently a refugee in Tajikistan – are trying to get money, weapons and support from abroad. However, according to Zia, without victories the resistance cannot have weapons and funding, and without weapons and funding victory over the Taliban will be even more difficult (if not impossible). Besides, who would be interested in supporting another war in Afghanistan?
In the past week, amu.tv reported the capture of a district in the far north, which was recaptured by the Taliban the next day. It is, therefore, a low-intensity guerrilla war in which the Taliban are in an advantageous position: they have modern weapons and equipment that the Americans left in the territory and whose value amounts to 85,000 million dollars, According to some people. On the other hand, despite the repression of the resistance, the main concern of the Taliban is the local branch of the Islamic State (IS-K). In addition to perpetrating attacks against religious minorities, such as the Hazaras, Shiites -considered heretics-, this group continues with a series of attacks against Taliban targets -the last one took place In the past week.
