KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), an armed group fighting the Taliban, said on Tuesday that its “freedom fighters” killed and wounded four Taliban members in its first attack in eastern Logar province.
In a statement posted on X, the group said its fighters targeted a Taliban checkpoint in the Bandar Kabul area of Pul-e-Alam, the provincial capital, late on Sunday night, killing two Taliban members and wounding two others.
“This marks the first operation by the Freedom Front fighters in Logar Province,” the AFF said,
Taliban authorities in Logar have not yet commented on the reported attack or the casualties claimed by the group.
The AFF, led by former head of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) General Yasin Zia, has stepped up operations in recent months. A week earlier, on April 13, it claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a Taliban compound near the district administration building in Tala wa Barfak district of Baghlan province, saying it killed four Taliban fighters and wounded two others. The group released video footage of that operation.
Several armed opposition groups, including the AFF and the National Resistance Front, have emerged since the Taliban seized power in August 2021. Many of their members are former Afghan security forces personnel. These groups have carried out dozens of attacks, primarily targeting Taliban checkpoints, convoys, and security positions in Kabul and northern provinces.
The AFF says it has conducted hundreds of operations in recent years, claiming to have killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban fighters.
While the Taliban routinely downplays the impact of such opposition groups and does not comment on individual attacks, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) regularly documents security-related incidents, including attacks by anti-Taliban groups, in its quarterly reports to the U.N. Security Council.
