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Afghan resistance force inflicts heavy casualties on Taliban in Kapisa province
Kabul: The resistance force under Afghanistan's former vice-president Amrullah Saleh inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban in Kapisa province where fierce fighting is underway.
Both sides are clashing in Sanjan in Kapisa province and Khost Wa Fereng district in Baghlan as the remnants of the Afghan national force and the militia group continue to offer resistance to Taliban.
The anti-Taliban forces are also giving a tough fight to the Taliban in the Panjshir province, forcing the Sunni Pashtun group to pull back.
Panjshir is the only province not captured by the Taliban, which captured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan without a fight.
The fighter group had captured district-after-district at a stunning speed in the wake of the withdrawal of the US-led NATO forces that had entered the country 20 years back.
The counter-strike comes days after the suicide blasts by ISIL (ISIS) offshoot in Afghanistan, The Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), who targeted “translators and collaborators with the American army.
The death toll of the Kabul airport attack on Thursday has now reached 175 people, Taliban sources told Al Jazeera.
Among the dead were 13 US service members.
After the attacks, Saleh asked the world to unite against terrorism. "The world must not bow to terrorism. Let's not allow Kabul airport to be the site for humiliation of humanity & "rules based world order". Let's believe in our collective effort and energy. Defeatist psyche puts you under risk more than terrorists. Don't die psychologically," he tweeted on Friday.
He also said Taliban was denying links with ISIS but it has learned the tactic from its master - Pakistan.
According to reports from Afghanistan, the Haqqani network has taken control of the capital city led by Anas Haqqani, brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the terrorist group and deputy leader of the Taliban. Sirajuddin Haqqani is said to be passing instructions from Quetta, stated a Hindustan Times report.
The religious head of Taliban, Mullah Haibatullah Akundzada, is still based in Karachi in Pakistan, according to the HT report.
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