Since the onset of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban-affiliated militants have conducted 26 clashes with Afghanistan neighbors. The armed conflicts have resulted in the death and injury of dozens of civilians as well as border guards from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other neighboring countries.
ISWNews Analysis Group – In consequence of the Tuesday attacks by terrorists of the ISIS group on the Taliban in Faizabad town, several local officials of the Taliban, including Molavi Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, Molavi Safiullah and Qari Ehsanullah were killed and several others were wounded.
Taliban militants prevented the construction of border walls by Iran in the past days and this issue increased the tension and eventually led to a conflict. Although the Taliban officials said that “they do not want a conflict with Iran”, their media figures continue to insult and attack Iran in social media.
ISWNews Analysis Group – During a border conflict between Iran and the Taliban in Sistan and Baluchistan province on May 27, one Iranian border guard was martyred and two others were wounded.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian has explained Tehran’s position on Afghanistan, saying that the Islamic Republic does not recognize the Taliban caretaker government in Afghanistan and only supports the formation of an inclusive government in the neighboring country.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Militants affiliated to Afghanistan’s Taliban caretaker government and Iran’s border guards fought on the outskirts of some villages in eastern areas of the city of Zabol in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran and exchanged fire.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Following the attack by the Pakistani army drone at 3:00 am on May 16, in Bahram Khel village located in Mandozi district in Khost province, six members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) including Mufti Mohammad Farooq, one of the commanders of this group were killed and wounded.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Leader of the Taliban Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh appointed Mullah Mohammad Ali Hanafi, known as Mullah Shirin Akhund, in a decree the new Taliban governor general in Kandahar province on May 4.
ISWNews Analysis Group – A drone, launched from an unknown place, pounded a Taliban military base in Shire wa Mandre village in Chal district of Takhar province, Afghanistan, on April 24.
ISWNews Analysis Group – The Afghanistan Liberation Front has issued a statement, confirming reports on the killing of its military official Akmal Ameer in a clash with Taliban’s armed forces in Salang district of Parwan province.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Taliban militants attacked the headquarters of the National Liberation Front of Afghanistan (NLFA) in Salang district in Parwan province on April 10, which left six members of the NLFA killed, including key commander of the anti-Taliban group Akmal Amir and deputy commander of the NLFA Basir Ahmad Andrabi, as well as a number of the militants who were killed and wounded in the raid.
ISWNews Analysis Group: An Iran-made drone codenamed Mohajer-6 fell down due to unknown reasons in Zabul Province in southern Afghanistan on March 16.
