Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

AAN in the Media

Resistance to the Taliban: Current status and prospects for the future

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Observer Research Foundation, 10 January 2023

This short online analysis (indirectly) quotes AAN’s Kate Clark on the prospects of the armed anti-Taleban resistance in Afghanistan:

According to Kate Clark, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent research organisation based in Kabul, while the resistance is historically not that strong, the Taliban itself took years to regroup and so mapping how the resistance shapes moving forward is imperative. As the Taliban are predominantly experienced fighters and militants, the group would be prepared to face an armed resistance more than a civil disobedience movement. …