RASC News Agency: The Afghanistan Freedom Front announced that over the past year it has carried out at least 88 targeted operations against Taliban checkpoints, bases, and gathering sites across multiple provinces. According to an official statement released on Saturday, August 16, these operations resulted in 225 Taliban fighters killed and 173 wounded, demonstrating the continued operational capacity of anti-Taliban forces despite the regime’s repeated and misleading claims of nationwide security. The majority of these actions were concentrated in Kabul and Kunduz, where the Freedom Front predominantly executes nighttime guerrilla operations, leveraging precision and local intelligence to strike at the heart of Taliban control. Notably, the Front has also targeted Taliban “morality police” units agents notorious for enforcing the regime’s draconian codes. In the past year alone, 14 such operatives were killed or wounded across three provinces, highlighting the persistent vulnerability of the Taliban’s instruments of oppression.
In its statement, the Front condemned the Taliban’s morality enforcers for violating the dignity and security of Afghanistani women, targeting their families, and inflicting systemic abuse on men through arbitrary detentions and harassment. Taliban-run compounds and detention centers, it emphasized, have become sites of torture, intimidation, and gendered oppression, reflecting a deliberate policy of control through fear rather than governance. After four years of Taliban dominance, the Afghanistan Freedom Front described the country as “a prison and torture chamber for its citizens, and a safe haven for regional and international terrorist networks.” The statement reaffirmed the Front’s commitment to continuing all-encompassing field operations, aiming to restore Afghanistani ownership over land, governance, and the destiny of the nation, while coordinating its efforts with women’s rights activists, civil society organizations, and grassroots movements resisting the regime.
The report underscores a stark contrast between the Taliban’s propaganda and reality. Despite proclamations of absolute control and nationwide security, opposition forces retain the capacity to inflict substantial operational damage, exposing the regime’s fragility and the vulnerability of its enforcers. Each operation against the Taliban demonstrates the limits of a governance model built on intimidation, repression, and the systematic violation of human rights. The Afghanistan Freedom Front’s announcement serves as a compelling reminder that the Taliban’s authority is contested, unstable, and inherently coercive, and that the struggle of Afghanistani citizens for freedom, dignity, and self-determination persists in the face of sustained oppression and institutionalized terror. By maintaining pressure on the regime and documenting its abuses, the Front aims not only to resist militarily but also to expose the Taliban’s false narrative of legitimacy to the international community.
