Any uprising against the Taliban takeover.
There are reports that the total number of Taliban troops are about 80,000. They have been stripping forces from elsewhere in the country to rush to Kabul to patrol and hold the capital, that obvious means less elsewhere.
The US and NATO couldn't suppress fighting with far moore troops, air power and intelligence. The Taliban have a very small window in which "shock and awe" will allow them to grab control everywhere and establish their rule. I wonder how long it will be before civil war, as occurred before 2001, is yet again the norm.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...ches-kchf706l5
Taliban fighters driven out by uprising over house-to-house searches
Armed groups have driven the Taliban’s Islamist militants out of three districts north of Kabul in the first military assault on Afghanistan’s new rulers since they seized the capital last week.
Anti-Taliban commanders said they had killed about 30 fighters as they took back control of the districts in Baghlan province, some 100 miles north of Kabul, The Washington Post reported. Images posted online showed scenes of jubilation as the national Afghan flag of red, green and black replaced the white Taliban banner over government buildings.
“We have ignited something historic,” a former Afghan soldier who fought in the uprising on Friday was quoted as saying. “As long as we are alive, we will not accept the Taliban’s rule.”
A tweet from a pro-Taliban account promised retribution for the assault and claimed that the Taliban had been betrayed after offering an amnesty. “All those who committed this crime must be killed,” it said, saying that 15 Taliban fighters had died in the fighting. “The doors of conversation are closed.”
The uprising came as Taliban fighters conducted house-to-house searches in the in the Andarab valley after locals had warned them not to enter their homes.
“Taliban fighters did not listen to us,” said the former government soldier quoted by the Washington Post. “They came to our houses and harassed people. In our villages, people are very traditional and Muslim. There is no reason for Taliban to come and teach us about Islam.”
Abdul Rahman, 53, a former commander at Baghlan prison, said: “All people of the valley have risen up against the Taliban. We are not afraid of Taliban fighters.” Afghans posted videos and photos of rifle-toting fighters congratulating one another on their victory and chanting “Allahu akbar” - “God is great”.....
The revolt was evidence of growing defiance of the Taliban and demonstrates the difficulty it faces in trying to subdue a country whose appetite for insurgency has proved the undoing of many a government in Kabul.
Yesterday’s revolt appears to have been unconnected with another anti-Taliban front that emerged in the north last week – the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, led by Ahmad Massoud, who has appealed for US and Western support.
“We have stores of ammunition and arms that we have patiently collected… because we knew this day might come,” Massoud wrote on Wednesday in the Washington Post, adding that he is “ready to follow in my father’s footsteps, with mujahideen fighters who are prepared, once again, to take on the Taliban.”.....