Live Conflict War in Afghanistan

guest_07 · Aug 27, 2021

Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to Muslim
& Good day to Other

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1431367196265967618

guest_07 · Aug 27, 2021

AlphaMike said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1431228069604429826

Almost every group in this world
have bad apple,
like below video, so?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1416494891203538944

Yes. Those bad apple should be punished
with appropriate punishment.

Gary · Aug 27, 2021

for those who don't understand the dynamics of Afghanistan as well as the players involved should read this excellent thread by researcher @abdsayedd

Thread by @abdsayedd on Thread Reader App

Thread by @abdsayedd: I don’t know when I will be able to write a piece on heartbreaking developments in Kabul but meantime, a thread on Islamic State Khurasan Province as I am seeing both interest and confusion...…

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again confirming my point earlier about this point:

ISKP/ISIS-K are mortal enemies of Taliban and Haqqani network
There's no links between ISIS-K and Taliban, no matter how much people try to portray as such
While Taliban/Haqqani leaders have deep animosity with ISKP, doesn't stop the fact that ISKP had drawn it's recruit from Taliban and Haqqani network rank and file, in particular from the salafists and battle hardened operatives experienced in urban warfare/insurgency from their experience working with Haqqani networks in the past.
Some Taliban?Haqqani leaders are opposed to Taliban leadership recent political moves.

again another history of where ISIS-K/ISKP came into existence. Again confirming my earlier points about the possibility of cracks inside Taliban's body.

One of the most significant characters in IS-K's creation was Abdul Rauf Khadem (died 2015), who had grown estranged from the Taliban’s leadership over ideological differences (see below) relating to their methodology. According to the United Nations Security Council he visited Iraq in October 2014, around four months after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the IS leader, first declared the caliphate and when the group was at the zenith of its power.

It is worth contextualising Khadem’s significance. He is known to have headed the Taliban’s intelligence commission and was also an adviser to Mullah Mohammed Omar, who founded the Taliban’s 1996 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. He later served on the Quetta Shura (meaning council), a powerful committee put together to help coordinate the Taliban’s activities once it had been toppled from power.

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2021/08/who-are-k-and-what-do-they-want

Gary · Aug 27, 2021

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1431126800999014400

Gary · Aug 27, 2021

The Taliban’s Struggle to Control Kabul

In the coming weeks, as the Taliban try to form a new government, they will have to find ways to reconcile the competing interests of the different factions they are trying to court to give their rule legitimacy. It remains to be seen, however, if they have the capacity to enforce discipline...

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The Taliban’s Struggle to Control Kabul

The insurgency’s lightning sweep of the Afghan capital was the easy part. Now they have to control rival factions and their own wayward elements

Fazelminallah QazizaiFazelminallah Qazizai is an Afghan journalist and co-author with Chris Sands of “Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Afghan Islamists who Changed the World”

Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, a leader of the Taliban affiliated Haqqani network, and a U.S.-designated terrorist with a five million dollar bounty, delivers his sermon to a large congregation at the Pul-I-Khishti Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021 / Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times

he Afghan government’s collapse was sped up when President Ashraf Ghani sneaked out of the Arg — the Afghan presidential palace — and, along with his national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib, escaped in a helicopter to Tajikistan. He had hidden his intention even from his allies. News of his flight caused panic, with people rushing to the airport to find their own way out. Ghani’s escape also hastened the collapse of the remaining security presence, with police and army personnel abandoning their stations and slipping into civilian clothes to melt away. Few were willing to risk their lives for a government that showed no capacity to fight for itself.

At 6:15 p.m. local time, the Taliban announced that their men were moving in to provide security in areas that had been abandoned by the government forces. Taliban fighters swept into the city on motorbikes in civilian clothes, bearing Russian- and U.S.-made weapons and Chinese magazines and bandoliers, and took control of all government buildings without facing any resistance. “The Islamic Emirates ordered its forces to enter the areas of Kabul city from which the enemy has left because there is a risk of theft and robbery,” the statement said.

At 8 p.m., the Taliban took control of the Arg. Their men appeared on the presidential desk, reciting verses from Sura Al-Nasr, or Victory, following the Sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet Muhammad, who had recited the same Sura on his triumphant return to Mecca after years of exile. “When God’s help, and triumph, comes.”

“There was no expectation that we would achieve victory in this war,” said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a video posted on social media from Doha, Qatar. “But this came with the help of God; therefore we should be thankful to him, be humble in front of him so that we do not act arrogantly.” Baradar had been in talks with government negotiators who included former President Hamid Karzai, jihadist leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Abdullah Abdullah, chair of the Afghanistan delegation to peace talks. An agreement for a transfer of power through an inclusive transitional government was nearly at hand. But Ghani’s departure even blindsided his own partners.

Before formally entering Kabul, the Taliban had already secreted men into the city, where they were biding their time, ready to take over the capital. But the quick collapse of the capital caught even them unprepared. The units assigned to secure the city were still busy clearing the outskirts of the capital and neighboring provinces when they were ordered to Kabul. They arrived in smaller numbers, exhausted and fatigued, immediately tasked with overseeing a large and chaotic city. “Ghani was aware of our strategy, so his final act was to catch us in shortage of mujahedeen to protect Kabul’s people, properties and wealth,” said a Taliban official. “The immediate order to enter and establish control was hard for us.”

Under the direct control of its political office in Doha, the Taliban dispatched a newly formed military unit to guard the Parliament, its members, houses of political leaders and high officials of the former government. “Our emir called me, to move as soon as possible to the house of Mir Rahman Rahmani, Afghan Parliament speaker, and secure his house, in Khair-Khana, District 11,” said one commander of the unit.

The emir who issued the order by phone told him, “The Doha office is in touch with him [Rahmani], so don’t do anything wrong.” The commander had grown up in a neighboring province and wasn’t familiar with Kabul so had no idea where Rahmani’s house was. In a ranger truck seized from police, he traversed the city with three young Taliban to the speaker’s house in the north of Kabul, which turned out to be a castle located on the side of the main road. After a brief skirmish with a unit of the Afghan National Security Directorate, they were able to take control of Rahmani’s home.

Other units of the quick reaction force were dispatched to secure the Green Zone, central bank, private banks and money exchange markets. But the immediate fall of Kabul caught them unprepared.

Unrulier elements of the Taliban, from the provinces neighboring Kabul, entered the capital creating mayhem, since few had an idea of what was required of them.
Unrulier elements of the Taliban, from the provinces neighboring Kabul, entered the capital creating mayhem, since few had an idea of what was required of them. “Some of the groups are stronger than the governor of Taliban,” said the commander. These include men under the command of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, who, according to Western press, have been put in charge of Kabul’s security. However, there has been no such official authorization from the Taliban’s central command.

The Taliban divided Kabul into three security zones, each with several police districts. In only one of the zones, groups from Khost and Paktia, the Haqqani heartlands, control about half of the police stations. These groups do not act independently of the Taliban but report to the governor. According to Taliban sources, Haqqani is in Kabul as a tribal and religious elder rather than as an official sent by the Taliban.

Many Red Units — the elite Taliban forces created in each province — and strong military factions, such as Fateh Zwak, are likewise stationed in Kabul without the authorization of the leadership. This has weakened discipline, and the leadership is struggling to assert control. “The Badri 313 unit is assigned to the Arg presidential palace, part of the airport, and the ministry of foreign affairs,” a Red Unit commander at the airport told me. “But two other parts of the airport, including the Military Air Academy and ANA [Afghan National Army] air force command building near the runway, are controlled by Wardak province Red Unit.”

At 8:30 p.m. the Taliban announced a curfew in the city and called on residents to stay home until 4 a.m. The announcement was made through local mosques and representatives in the western part of the city. The curfew was announced in part as a precaution against any disruption of the Shiite community’s Muharram ceremonies. The Taliban had no capacity to check all the vehicles, and the threat of sectarian attacks by the Islamic State group remains high.

The Taliban deputy leader arrived in Kandahar, and some of the political office members were already in Kabul to advance talks about the political transition in the country. “The Taliban could announce the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, but our leaders are proceeding with talks aimed at forming an open inclusive Islamic government,” said the Taliban official.

The Taliban intend to form a council that includes Karzai, Hekmatyar and former presidential candidate Abdullah in the interim government, which will be led by the supreme leader of the Taliban Sheikh Haibatullah.

“In the forthcoming government, strong parties will have seats, like Hezb-e-Islami; Jamiat-e-Islami (Abdullah’s faction); and Khalil’s Wahdat-e-Islami faction,” said the official. He mentioned that there was pressure from Qatar and Pakistan to include Karzai or Abdullah as deputies in the new interim ruling council. In Kabul, they have allowed Mayor Mohammad Daoud Sultanzoy to continue in office, though under the supervision of a Taliban commission.

In the coming weeks, as the Taliban try to form a new government, they will have to find ways to reconcile the competing interests of the different factions they are trying to court to give their rule legitimacy. It remains to be seen, however, if they have the capacity to enforce discipline within their own ranks.