– Do the Taliban have the upper hand? –
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 5:13 am
“With the Taliban now apparently carrying out moderate reforms to their regime, it is highly likely that the group will try to capitalize on its position as the main rejection group in Afghanistan to recruit more disgruntled former Taliban supporters and to launch attacks against the Taliban. Taliban. ”
“The Taliban’s main message to the Afghan people since August 15 is that they have restored stability by ending the war,” said Michael Kugelman of the US think tank Woodrow Wilson Center.
“But terrorist attacks like the one in Kunduz undermine this narrative in a major way,” he warned.
The fallen US-backed Afghan government received hundreds of billions of dollars in security support and assistance and was backed by Western forces, but was unable to defeat either the Taliban or the IS-K.
Now the Taliban are facing their rival with very little outside help phone number library and none of the sophisticated intelligence gathering and surveillance equipment deployed by the US military.
They know their enemy and the terrain, however, and last week announced the destruction of an IS-K cell in Kabul following a suicide bombing attack on the city’s second largest mosque.
And they have the potential backing of two groups who are very familiar with IS-K tactics.
As a report from the US-based Soufan Center explains: “To fight IS-K, the Taliban will rely on the Haqqani network, al-Qaeda and other violent non-state actors for the workforce. manpower, combat expertise and logistical support. . “
“The Taliban’s main message to the Afghan people since August 15 is that they have restored stability by ending the war,” said Michael Kugelman of the US think tank Woodrow Wilson Center.
“But terrorist attacks like the one in Kunduz undermine this narrative in a major way,” he warned.
The fallen US-backed Afghan government received hundreds of billions of dollars in security support and assistance and was backed by Western forces, but was unable to defeat either the Taliban or the IS-K.
Now the Taliban are facing their rival with very little outside help phone number library and none of the sophisticated intelligence gathering and surveillance equipment deployed by the US military.
They know their enemy and the terrain, however, and last week announced the destruction of an IS-K cell in Kabul following a suicide bombing attack on the city’s second largest mosque.
And they have the potential backing of two groups who are very familiar with IS-K tactics.
As a report from the US-based Soufan Center explains: “To fight IS-K, the Taliban will rely on the Haqqani network, al-Qaeda and other violent non-state actors for the workforce. manpower, combat expertise and logistical support. . “