RASC News Agency: The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) has announced that three Taliban fighters, all members of the group’s notorious intelligence wing, were killed in a precise guerrilla operation in Herat province. The attack, carried out on the night of Sunday, September 14, underscores the continued fragility of Taliban control and exposes the regime’s inability to neutralize armed opposition movements despite its sweeping claims of dominance.
In a statement released on social media, the NRF confirmed that its fighters ambushed a Taliban unit along the Herat–Pashtun Zarghun highway near a Taliban-run police training facility in Guzara district. The victims were identified as operatives of the “Al-Farooq Military Corps’ reconnaissance detachment” an intelligence and enforcement branch of the Taliban infamous for surveillance, arbitrary arrests, and the intimidation of civilians in Afghanistan’s western provinces.
According to the NRF, the operation was conducted with precision. Two rifles and a Taliban motorcycle were seized, while no civilian casualties were reported an outcome the Resistance emphasized as evidence of its disciplined approach compared to the Taliban’s frequent reliance on indiscriminate violence and collective punishment.
The NRF further declared that “such operations will continue in the days ahead,” reaffirming its commitment to sustained armed struggle against what it calls the Taliban’s illegitimate and oppressive regime. By deliberately striking the Taliban’s intelligence arm the very backbone of its repressive machinery the Resistance has not only inflicted physical losses but also delivered a psychological blow to one of the most feared branches of the Taliban structure.
The NRF remains one of the two principal military fronts actively opposing Taliban rule. Over the past four years, its fighters have launched a series of tactical ambushes on Taliban convoys, checkpoints, and outposts across several provinces. Though relatively small in scale, these attacks have repeatedly demonstrated that Taliban power is far from absolute, and that the narrative of “complete stability” propagated by the regime is deeply misleading.
Military experts argue that these operations, while not large enough to shift the battlefield balance, carry profound symbolic and strategic value. They reveal cracks in the Taliban’s intelligence and security apparatus, sustain public morale among communities suffocated by Taliban repression, and send a clear message to Afghans and the wider international community that the Resistance is neither dormant nor defeated.
Moreover, analysts note that the Taliban’s continued failure to suppress such guerrilla activity undermines its international image as a governing authority. Instead, the group is increasingly seen as a fragile militia attempting to cling to power through intimidation, forced compliance, and propaganda—tools that cannot indefinitely suppress armed opposition or popular resentment.
This latest ambush in Herat is more than just a tactical success; it is a political statement. It demonstrates that despite Taliban attempts to silence dissent through fear, Afghanistan’s armed opposition movements retain both the will and the capability to resist. For the Taliban, every such incident erodes its already fragile claim to legitimacy. For the Afghanistani people, it serves as a reminder that their country’s struggle against tyranny is far from over.
