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KABUL – At least 10 Taliban fighters were killed and five others injured in a significant attack on the group’s Ministry of Interior in Kabul on Saturday, according to The Independent. The incident marks a sharp escalation in tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that a Taliban commander was among the dead. The attack occurred at the ministry headquarters on the airport road in Kabul and targeted a security convoy of the Taliban’s ministry, destroying three military vehicles, according to the NRF.
Khalid Zadran, a Taliban spokesperson, confirmed the attack and reported that four people were injured and taken to a hospital. “An investigation has been launched into the incident,” he added.
The attack follows closely on the heels of another high-profile incident in Kabul in which Khalil Haqqani, the Taliban’s acting minister of refugees and repatriation, was killed in a suicide bombing. Haqqani, a senior member of the influential Haqqani network, was the uncle of Taliban interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Ali Maisam Nazary, the NRF’s head of foreign relations, stated that Saturday’s attack was a show of the group’s operational capability. “This year, we’ve carried out more than 360 military operations against the Taliban across 20 provinces of Afghanistan,” he told The Independent.
Nazary also criticized international perspectives on the Taliban’s stability. “The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, denied any resistance against the Taliban. We are proving them wrong by revealing security breaches inside Taliban-held Afghanistan.”
The NRF claims to have infiltrated Taliban ranks, signaling an evolving dynamic in Afghanistan’s internal conflict.
