Anti-Taliban groups claim over 18 attacks in 12 Afghan provinces

KABUL: Successive attacks by resistance groups opposed to the Taliban regime have raised tensions in Afghanistan. Between 10 and 18 October, more than 18 major operations were carried out in 12 provinces, causing heavy losses to the Taliban regime.

In the various attacks, more than 38 Taliban personnel, including commanders, were killed and dozens were wounded. Several posts, vehicles and quantities of military equipment were destroyed.

Attacks in Helmand and Kandahar

The Afghanistan United Front carried out successive attacks in Helmand and Kandahar, strongholds of the Taliban regime. According to the AUF, one Taliban member was killed and another wounded in an attack in Ghor on 11 October.

On 13 October, Taliban commander Rahimullah Rohani and a policeman were killed in an attack in Arghandab district of Kandahar. On 14 October, an attack on three posts in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar killed three personnel, wounded three and destroyed a vehicle.

On the same day, five personnel were killed in an attack on a post in Helmand and weapons were seized. On 15 October, a Taliban intelligence official was killed in Lashkargah.

On 17 October, two personnel were wounded in an attack on a customs post in Lashkargah, while one person was killed in Helmand. The AUF said the fall of the Taliban regime was inevitable and that operations would continue until Afghanistan was freed.

Claims by other groups

According to the AFF, three Taliban intelligence personnel were killed and two wounded in an attack near the police headquarters in Logar on 13 October.

According to the NRF, one person was killed and one wounded in Baghlan on 9 October. On 10 October, one person was killed and one wounded in an attack on a post in Panjshir.

According to the Afghan Green Trend, a Taliban police post was destroyed in Herat city on 13 October. On 15 October, an attack on a Ranger vehicle in Panjshir destroyed the vehicle and killed all personnel on board. On 18 October, the Taliban Ranger commander of the fourth security district was killed in Lashkargah.

According to the National Independence Front, a rocket attack on a tank in Nangarhar on 7 October destroyed the tank completely and killed three personnel. On 11 October, a rocket attack on vehicles carrying military equipment at an airfield near Lashkargah destroyed two vehicles and the equipment, killed eight personnel and wounded dozens.

On 13 October, in an ambush on the convoy of Taliban intelligence deputy chief Maulvi Amruddin Khalid in Farah city, Maulvi Khalid’s aide was killed along with two guards, and all weapons were seized.

On 15 October, an attack on a Ranger vehicle in Wardak destroyed the vehicle completely and killed four personnel. On 17 October, a rocket attack on the guesthouse of Taliban governor of Badghis Mullah Mohammad Akhundzada killed two of the governor’s guards and seriously wounded four.

On 18 October, an important Taliban commander, Mullah Daud Nadeem, was attacked in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar. On 14 October, the Afghan Republic Front fired rockets at the Taliban regime’s zinc mine depot in Bamiyan. Several rockets hit the target and the Taliban suffered heavy casualties.