RASC News Agency: The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has announced that one of its special resistance units carried out a highly coordinated guerrilla operation in the northern province of Kunduz, resulting in the killing of Qari Khalid, a senior Taliban commander notorious for overseeing repressive operations in the region.
In a statement released on Thursday, 16 Mizan, the AFF said the strike was conducted late Wednesday night along the road leading to Chahar Dara district, specifically in the Angur Bagh area. According to the group, resistance fighters ambushed a Taliban vehicle, targeting it with precision fire after several days of intelligence monitoring and surveillance.
“Commander Qari Khalid was traveling from the Taliban’s military base at the so-called ‘Kunduz Army Corps’ toward Chahar Dara when he was successfully neutralized,” the statement read. “Our unit withdrew from the area without casualties after completing the mission.”
The Afghanistan Freedom Front, which has emerged as one of the most organized anti-Taliban resistance networks, has expanded its guerrilla presence across northern Afghanistan, particularly in Kunduz, Takhar, and Baghlan provinces. The Front has repeatedly targeted Taliban outposts and commanders accused of leading public executions, extortion campaigns, and the persecution of civilians.
Earlier this week, the group claimed that several Taliban militants were killed in another overnight clash in central Kunduz, part of what it described as its ongoing campaign of attrition against the Taliban’s fragile military structure.
Despite growing reports of such attacks, Taliban officials have remained silent, adhering to their typical strategy of concealment and denial. The group’s spokespersons known for disseminating propaganda narratives of “security and stability” have offered no comment. Yet, local residents in Kunduz report a sharply different reality: Taliban forces have intensified nighttime patrols, erected new checkpoints, and begun detaining young men on vague suspicions of “collaboration” with resistance groups.
Security observers say these developments expose the deep cracks in the Taliban’s claim of control. Kunduz, once a strategic northern hub, has become a symbol of rising underground defiance against a regime that rules through fear rather than legitimacy. The persistence of guerrilla warfare despite the Taliban’s authoritarian grip demonstrates that the movement’s so-called “victory” of 2021 has long since deteriorated into a state of permanent insecurity and internal decay.
Analysts further note that resistance groups like the AFF, though operating with limited resources, have successfully undermined the Taliban’s aura of invincibility. Each targeted strike not only weakens the group’s command structure but also reignites the public’s faith in organized defiance against tyranny.
While the Taliban continues to suppress independent media, restrict women’s movement, and govern through intimidation, the growing frequency of coordinated resistance attacks reveals a simmering national resentment a quiet but potent reminder that the people of Afghanistan have neither forgotten freedom nor surrendered their will to reclaim it.
