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Anti-Taliban group clashes with Taliban in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley

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The Taliban and an anti-Taliban group have come to blows in a valley in northern Afghanistan as resistance forces struggle to reclaim control of the nation.

 

Overnight confrontations between the National Resistance Front and the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley, the last major holdout against the Taliban, began on Thursday. The clashes have been intense, with Fahim Dashti, an NRF spokesman, saying the Taliban lost 40 of their forces amid the attempts to enter Panjshir, and Ali Nazary, another NRF spokesman, said that a number of heavy equipment and weaponry belonging to the Taliban was destroyed.

 

Ahmad Massoud, leader of the NRF, said the violent clashes are necessary to protect the nation from Taliban oppression.

 

"The Taliban have not changed, and they still are after dominance throughout the country," Massoud told CNN. "We are resisting dominance, intolerance, and oppression brought by one political force over the majority of the population that do not support them."

 

Massoud said that his group is still trying to negotiate with the Taliban but vowed he and his group will fight should talks fail.