The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), an armed opposition group formed in response to the Taliban’s takeover in 2021, has announced that its fighters carried out a coordinated series of attacks across several Afghan provinces over the past week, resulting in the deaths and injuries of multiple Taliban members.
According to official statements released by the AFF on the social media platform X, the group conducted five separate operations targeting Taliban positions in Kabul, Kandahar, and Kunduz provinces. The attacks reportedly left at least 14 Taliban fighters killed or wounded.
In its most recent operation on Wednesday, AFF fighters reportedly struck a Taliban checkpoint in Maiwand district, Kandahar, killing two Taliban members and injuring one. Earlier in the week, three separate assaults were carried out in Kabul’s PD1, PD15, and PD5 (Kote Sangi area), resulting in the deaths of seven Taliban fighters and injuries to three others.
In Kunduz province, the AFF claimed responsibility for an operation in Chahar Dara district, where its fighters allegedly killed a Taliban commander identified as Qari Khalid.
The Taliban authorities have not issued any official comment regarding the reported incidents.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front, alongside the National Resistance Front (NRF), remains one of the principal armed movements resisting Taliban rule. Both groups are largely composed of former members of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) and continue to employ guerrilla-style tactics targeting Taliban checkpoints, convoys, and military outposts.
In his latest report to the United Nations Security Council, UN Secretary-General António Guterres acknowledged that while such resistance movements currently do not pose a strategic threat to Taliban control, they remain active and continue to conduct regular operations. Between May and July, the UN verified 19 out of 47 attacks claimed by anti-Taliban groups, underscoring their sustained presence and capability.
The AFF’s latest claims highlight a continued pattern of organized armed resistance and underscore ongoing instability across several Afghan provinces more than four years after the Taliban’s return to power.
