Panjshir Valley

Taliban says it captured Panjshir with no civillian deaths, resistance forces deny claim

Taliban’s claim of occupying Panjshir is false. The NRF forces are present in all strategic positions across the valley to continue the fight, the NRF tweeted

Amrullah Saleh lashes out at Pakistan, says Taliban being micromanaged by ISI

Afghanistan's self-proclaimed acting president also hit out at the United States, saying its betrayal was colossal

Taliban struggle to take over Panjshir as they prepare to form government

The Panjshir Valley held out for a decade against the Soviet Union's occupation and also the Taliban's first rule from 1996-2001

Why Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley remains out of Taliban reach

The mountainous region has an illustrious history of never being captured by an outside force, may it be the Soviets in the 1980s or the insurgent group in the 1990s

Taliban sends 'hundreds' of fighters to Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley after Ahmad Massoud refuses to give it up

Since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, flickers of resistance have begun to emerge with some ex-government troops gathering in the Panjshir, north of Kabul, long known as an anti-Taliban bastion

Afghan resistance says ready for conflict with Taliban, but seeking negotiation to avoid bloodshed

NRF spokesperson Ali Maisam Nazary said their main goal is to press for a new decentralised government, but if the Taliban do not negotiate they will face resistance

Taliban fighters seek Russia's help to mediate with pro-government holdout

The Panjshir Valley, a stronghold of the Northern Alliance militias that were allied with the US during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, is the only area that hasn't fallen to the Taliban

Anti-Taliban fighters take back three districts as resistance builds up in Panjshir Valley, but experts cast doubts

Surrounded by the high peaks of the Hindu Kush, the Panjshir has long had a reputation as a bastion of resistance -- legendary military commander Ahmad Shah Massoud successfully defended it during the Soviet-Afghan War and the civil war.