A person has been killed and another left injured following a shooting at a United Nations compound in Kabul, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement on Monday.
The statement added, The incident involved Taliban guards, and an investigation is currently underway. A United Nations report released in June 2024 highlighted an increase in attacks by armed groups opposing Taliban rule in Afghanistan and noted “persistent” internal tensions among de facto Afghan leaders. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) stated that the assessment had been submitted by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the Security Council.
According to the report, armed opposition groups “did not pose a significant challenge” to the Taliban’s territorial control since they took power in August 2021. It identified two groups behind verified attacks: “The Afghanistan Freedom Front [AFF] and the National Resistance Front [NRF]. The UN noted that both factions targeted Taliban security forces in Kabul. “The NRF carried out ’29 confirmed attacks’ in the past three months, with 20 in Kabul and the rest in the northern Afghan provinces of Takhar, Baghlan, and Parwan. The AFF conducted 14 attacks, all of which took place in the national capital.”
The document further detailed that “both groups used hit-and-run tactics against de facto security forces, throwing grenades in 22 attacks and using improvised explosive devices in seven others”. It cited an NRF-claimed attack on February 26 that targeted “the Taliban-run military zone of Kabul International Airport, firing three mortars on the installation but causing no confirmed damage or casualties.”
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