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Afghanistan, every now and then, is hit by a bomb attack. Most of the recent attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State in Khorasan (terrorist organization, banned in Russia)). Its ability to orchestrate highly sophisticated attacks shows that the group, contrary to the claims the US military officials made during the US occupation of Afghanistan,
has not lost its strength at all. But, to the surprise of many, the IS-K, while a potent threat to the Taliban (radical organization, banned in Russia) and the wider region of South and Central Asia,
a new armed resistance is emerging against the Taliban, this time led by local Afghans rather than transnational jihadis.
Afghanistan's National Resistance Front (NRF) being led by Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's former vice president, has officially launched an offensive against the Taliban. Scores of other armed groups, too, have announced their formations and declared their intentions, on their Facebook pages and otherwise, to resist the Taliban
on their own or in alliance with the NRF.According to claims made by the NRF's Ali Nazary, head of NRF's foreign relations,
a fully-fledged offensive has been launched in the Panjshir valley, in at least three districts. The NRF has a presence across Afghanistan's many provinces. As Ali Nazary told the Associated Press of France in an interview, the NRF will launch operations in all the provinces to drive out what it calls illegal occupants (i.e., the Taliban) of power in Kabul.
Comment: USA is up to its old tricks...theme and variation.