KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), an armed group fighting the Taliban, said on Thursday its fighters killed three Taliban fighters and wounded two others in an attack on a Taliban checkpoint in eastern Nangarhar province.
In a statement posted on X, the AFF said its “freedom fighters” targeted the checkpoint on the Jalalabad-Kunar highway in Shewa district of Nangarhar Province late on Wednesday.
The group said the attack killed three Taliban members and seriously wounded two others. It did not disclose whether any of its own fighters suffered casualties.
Taliban authorities in Nangarhar have not commented on the reported attack or the claimed casualties.
The incident is the latest in a series of guerrilla-style attacks claimed by the AFF, one of several armed groups opposing Taliban rule since the group returned to power in 2021.
Earlier on the same day, the AFF said it had carried out another attack on a Taliban base in Alingar district of Laghman Province. The group said the attack lasted around 15 minutes and involved rocket launchers and small arms, though the exact number of casualties remained unclear.
The AFF, which is composed largely of former members of the former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, has claimed attacks on Taliban positions in several provinces, including Kabul, Herat, Nangarhar, and Kandahar.
While the Taliban rarely comment on attacks by opposition groups, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) continues to document security incidents involving anti-Taliban armed groups in its quarterly reports to the U.N. Security Council.
In its latest report submitted earlier this month, UNAMA said anti-Taliban groups, including the AFF and the National Resistance Front, had claimed at least 18 attacks in 10 provinces over three months, with 16 of those incidents verified by the mission.
