Taliban: Raid kills 8 insurgent fighters in Afghanistan’s north

KABUL, Afghanistan — A raid on a insurgent hideout in northern Afghanistan killed eight fighters from a resistance motion together with a commander, the Defense Ministry stated Tuesday.

The National Resistance Front vowed to combat the Taliban after they overran the nation and seized energy in August 2021. The NRF retreated to a mountainous and distant valley in Panjshir province after the takeover, with Panjshir the final province to carry out towards the Taliban as they swept by means of Afghanistan. The National Resistance Front and one other group, the Afghanistan Freedom Front, are comprised of former safety personnel from the earlier Western-backed authorities.

The Defense Ministry stated in a tweet that the 313 Central Corps carried out an operation on a insurgent hideout in Salang district, Parwan province, that killed eight folks together with a commander named Akmal Amiri.

Fighters recovered a rocket-propelled grenade, pickaxes, Kalashnikov and different rifles, and night time imaginative and prescient binoculars through the raid in Parwan, which borders Panjshir and Kabul.

“The mujahideen of the Islamic emirate will not allow any group or person to harm the security and well-being of our people,” stated the ministry.

Ali Maisam Nazary, head of overseas relations on the NRF, paid tribute to the slain commander and condemned the navy operation.