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Rebels in the strategically important valley provided US. According to images shared on social media Saleh and Massoud the son of anti-Taliban fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud are pulling together a guerrilla movement to take on the Taliban.

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The Taliban announced that hundreds of fighters.

Panjshir taliban. There 32 year-old Ahmad Massoud is leading a resistance force. If the Taliban try to seize control of Panjshir valley resistance fighters will be ready to resist the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud one of the main leaders of Afghanistans anti-Soviet resistance. The Taliban militants have taken nearly every scrap of land in the country over the past fortnight.

Special forces and the CIA with critical. The Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul is Afghanistans last remaining holdout known for its natural defenses. There are now reports of an anti-Taliban alliance forming in the picturesque valley a blast from the past.

Despite its proximity to Kabul no government foreign or Afghan has ever taken and held it by. This is the last bastion of resistance to Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Follow the latest updates on Afghanistan here.

It was the last Taliban-free region of Afghanistan which didnt fall even during the civil war of the 1990s nor was it ever conquered by the Soviets earlier. After the Talibans swift seizure of power in Afghanistan the Panjshir Valley in the north is the last place that. It was a bastion of resistance to occupying Soviet troops in the 1980s and later the Taliban until that fundamentalist groups.

It is still dotted with rusty tanks from the fighting of those decades. The Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan on Wednesday rejected Taliban rule of his country and said Panjshir province north of Kabul would serve as a stronghold for resistance led by self-proclaimed. However resistance to the Taliban rule has emerged in the remote and mountainous province of Panjshir.

But Panjshir meaning five lions in Persian is a natural fortress. The Panjshir Valley is Afghanistans last remaining holdout where anti-Taliban forces seem to be working on forming a guerrilla movement to take on the Islamic fundamentalist group. It is still dotted with.

The Panjshir Valley was considered one of Afghanistans safest regions during the era of the ISAF -backed government and is presently late August 2021 the main bastion of resistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Even after the complete take over of Afghanistan. Panjshir Valley is the only region out of Talibans hands courtesy its geographic ruggedness as also the fact that it is jealously guarded as the birthplace of one of Afghanistans greatest sons.

The Panjshir Valley north of Kabul was a hotbed of anti-Taliban sentiment prior to 2001. Panjshir valley north of Kabul in the Hindu Kush was a resistance stronghold for decades first against the Soviets in the 1980s then against the Taliban in the 1990s. Panjshir region is yet to surrender to the Taliban contrary to widespread belief that the Taliban had swept the entire Afghanistan under their Mujaheddin control.

The Talibans lightning offensive which began immediately after President Joe Bidens announcement of withdrawal on April 14 2021 has resulted in a near total takeover of Afghanistan. Operatives working for Ahmad Massoud the 32-year-old resistance leader commanding anti-Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley in north-eastern Afghanistan have contacted the new Taliban government in Kabul and proposed a deal a representative of Mr Massoud told The National. The Panjshir Valley nestled in the peaks of Hindu Kush in north of Kabul has been the hotbed of Taliban resistance where anti-insurgent fighters were gearing up to take on the rebels.

The Panjshir resistance also known as the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Second Resistance Resistance 20 and Resistance II is a military alliance of former Northern Alliance members and anti-Taliban fighters who refers themselves to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan created after the 2021 Taliban offensive under the leadership of the Afghan politician and military leader. Vice President Amrullah Saleh who was born and trained to fight there vowed he would. Taliban fighters are now heading towards Panjshir Valley which has never been controlled by the Taliban and has become the centre of resistance.

The Panjshir Valley north of Kabul in the Hindu Kush has been a stronghold of resistance for decades first against the Soviets in the 1980s and then against the Taliban in the 1990s. The commander of anti-Taliban forces in Panjshir he wrote in The Washington Post last week that his soldiers were ready to fight but needed more weapons more ammunition and more supplies. PANJSHIR VALLEY Afghanistan -- With its soaring cliffs and steep gorges this famed region has never been conquered by invading forces during more than 40 years of war.

He told UAE National newspaper that war is on the cards if the group. The precise terms of Mr Massouds proposal to the Taliban are.

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