Afghan government collapse.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

21 radical islamists.

To be expected from Atlas.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1326306141056364544?s=19

Scrambling to escape from a band of cave dwelling troglodytes wasn't my idea of "being back in the game."

[AncestralDemocrat.]

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1427734582762295299?s=19

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So I don't want to push fake news but there are unconfirmed reports that the Panshjir resistance is already starting to push back against the Taliban does anyone have more information on that.

VP Saleh's forces recaptured Charikar from the Taliban.. that's all the information we have at the moment.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

https://twitter.com/MSharif1990/status/1428755292171481088?s=19

[AncestralDemocrat.]

https://twitter.com/MSharif1990/status/1428755292171481088?s=19

Newsweek is reporting the number could be as high as (3) / (15) districts of Baghlan Province:

Resistance fighters in Afghanistan have recaptured three areas in the country's Baghlan province from the Taliban, according to reports on Friday, as locals fight back against the recent takeover.

Anti-Taliban forces reportedly took back control of the Banu, Pol-e-Hesar and De Salah districts in Baghlan province, while around 60 Taliban fighters were killed or injured in the fighting.

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-taliban-resistance-recaptures-multiple-areas-afghans-fight-back-1621437

It should also be noted that the province is majority Ethnic Tajik and Hazara, as well as partially adjacent to Panjshir Province, both of which could have future significance from both a political and military perspective with Taliban forces much more stretched out as they try to garrison large cities where historically they have had much less support than in many rural areas within the country.

Pro Taliban accounts on social media have begun to share a propaganda message confirming the seizures by "betrayers" and that 15 "Mujahideen" were martyred.. so the 60+ number is likely correct.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

"He said his forces, which one aide said numbered more than 6,000, would need international support if it came to fighting.

But he said they did not just come from Panjshir, a region of Persian-speaking Tajiks long at odds with the Pashtuns who form the core of the Taliban movement."

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/anti-taliban-leader-massoud-says-negotiation-only-way-forward-2021-08-22/?taid=612290a6ced6e00001765f2c&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Massoud's forces number around 6,000 and the clashes in Banghlan were associated with local militia, not Panjshir troops.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/status/1429523669701771264?s=19

300 seems to be quite a exaggerated number.