RASC News Agency: The Afghanistan Freedom Front has claimed responsibility for a targeted guerrilla attack in Kabul that reportedly killed three members of the Taliban militia, in what analysts describe as a fresh sign of mounting armed resistance against the group’s authoritarian and repressive rule.
In a statement released on Tuesday, October 21, accompanied by video footage from the scene, the Freedom Front announced that its fighters carried out a precision assault late Monday night in the Chaman-e-Hozori area, located within Kabul’s First Police District. The group reported that a vehicle carrying Taliban militants was ambushed and struck by gunfire, killing three of them instantly. According to the statement, the Front’s fighters completed their operation successfully and withdrew from the area without suffering any casualties.
The Taliban regime, notorious for suppressing information about security incidents that challenge its narrative of “nationwide stability,” has issued no formal comment on the attack. Independent verification remains limited due to restrictions on press freedom under Taliban control. Nonetheless, several Kabul residents confirmed hearing bursts of gunfire and explosions in the vicinity of Chaman-e-Hozori on Monday night, corroborating elements of the Freedom Front’s claim.
This was the second such operation in the capital within three days. Earlier, on Sunday, the Freedom Front claimed responsibility for an attack on a Taliban Ranger pickup along the Kabul Airport–Qasaba highway, reportedly killing two Taliban fighters and wounding two others. The group released a short video showing its fighters firing at the vehicle in a coordinated nighttime assault.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front one of the most prominent anti-Taliban resistance movements has intensified its guerrilla warfare campaign in recent months, expanding operations across multiple provinces including Kabul, Parwan, Baghlan, Kunduz, and Takhar. The group describes its mission as part of a “national liberation struggle to free Afghanistan from Taliban occupation,” emphasizing that its operations are aimed solely at Taliban military and administrative targets.
Political observers say the rise of such coordinated resistance marks a growing wave of disillusionment among the Afghanistani population, who remain trapped under the Taliban’s regressive and coercive rule. Despite the Taliban’s relentless propaganda that portrays their control as “peace and order,” a string of insurgent attacks even in heavily militarized zones like Kabul reveals the fragility and insecurity of their governance.
Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have systematically dismantled the foundations of a modern state shuttering women’s schools and universities, silencing journalists, persecuting minorities, and turning Afghanistan into an ideological ghetto ruled by fear. Their corruption and mismanagement have deepened economic collapse, driving millions into poverty and hunger. Against this backdrop, the re-emergence of organized resistance like the Freedom Front signals that the regime’s coercive machinery is neither sustainable nor universally accepted.
Analysts warn that if the Taliban continue to rule through intimidation and exclusion while monopolizing foreign aid and denying citizens their most basic rights armed resistance will inevitably intensify. The Freedom Front’s growing activities across the country, while still limited in scale, carry immense symbolic weight: they are a reminder that Afghanistan’s struggle for dignity, freedom, and justice did not end with the fall of the republic, nor will it be extinguished by the Taliban’s repression.
The persistence of such defiance demonstrates a reality the Taliban desperately seek to conceal that beneath their imposed silence, the spirit of resistance is alive and deepening. The Taliban’s claim of “stability” rests on censorship, fear, and the forced erasure of dissent; yet every new act of defiance, like the Freedom Front’s attack in Kabul, exposes the fragility of their rule and the inevitability of Afghanistan’s eventual liberation from their tyranny.
