Taliban Casualties Have Doubled, Claims NRF’s Political Head

Abdullah Khanjani, the head of political affairs of the National Resistance Front (NRF) has claimed that the Taliban's casualties in the first six months of this year have doubled as compared to the same period last year.

In an interview with Afghanistan International, Khanjani said that the operations of this front have increased by 25% during this period.

However, he declined to provide exact figures regarding Taliban’s casualties. So far, no independent source has confirmed this claim of the official of the National Resistance Front.

In recent weeks, two major anti-Taliban groups have said that they have attacked Taliban bases and outposts in the cities of Kabul, Herat, and Ghor. The National Resistance Front and Afghanistan Freedom Front have said in their statements that Taliban forces have been killed and wounded in their attacks.

In the most recent case, the Afghanistan Freedom Front announced this week that it had carried out a rocket attack on the Kabul airport. The unprecedented attack prompted the Taliban to once again launch house-to-house searches in Khair Khana area in Kabul.

Taliban officials have not yet commented on the increase in attacks by opposition groups.

In September, the United Nations announced in a report that in the first three months of this year, anti-Taliban fronts, including the NRF and the Afghanistan Freedom Front, carried out 73 attacks against the Taliban.

The report stated that between May 14 and July 31, 2,127 security incidents were recorded in Afghanistan, an increase of 53 percent as compared to the same period last year.

Also, 80 cases of armed conflict were recorded in Afghanistan during this period, compared to 37 cases at the same time last year.

The full interview with Abdullah Khanjani, the political head of the National Resistance Front, will be broadcast on Afghanistan International TV on Wednesday evening, October 23.