The Resistance Effort to Topple the Taliban
20th May 2024
It’s fighting season in Afghanistan again. When the Americans were in charge, after the poppy fields had been harvested in late spring, and the madrassas in Pakistan that supplied the Taliban with fanatical soldiers had finished for the term, the Islamists kicked off the fighting. Between 2001 and 2021, around 200,000 people died. Now an insurgent group called the National Resistance Front are starting the annual springtime assaults, this time against the Taliban government.