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Afghanistan
In Takhar, four Taliban killed by Resistance Front forces
2022-08-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Local sources in Takhar report that four Taliban were killed in an ambush by the National Resistance Front
...(NRF), the current incarnation of the anti-Talib Northern Alliance of a generation ago that was led by legendary Tajik military commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, among others. The NRF is led by his son, Ahmad Massoud, and is doing its best without apparent outside support...
in the village of Sar Asiyab in Rustak County.

Sources add that after the battle, the Taliban's weapons fell into the hands of the Resistance Front fighters, 8 Sobh writes.

It should be noted that two Taliban were killed and another Taliban were wounded as a result of an attack by the Resistance Front forces on a checkpoint of the Taliban in the administrative center of Takhar province on the night of August 19.
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