Taliban forces and anti-Taliban militia fighters clashed in the Panjshir Valley north of the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, with a militia spokesman saying that seven or eight Taliban members died.
Fahim Dashty, with the so-called National Resistance Front in Panjshir, said that the Taliban attacked the entrance of the Panjshir Valley. The National Resistance Front is a group loyal to leader Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghan resistance fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud who fought against Soviet forces during the invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
