Resistance holds out in Panjshir Valley
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Taliban and National Resistance Front forces loyal to Ahmad Massoud are fighting on multiple fronts in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley – the last province resisting rule by the Islamist hardliners
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Assault from Anjuman Pass in Badakhshan

Sep 2: Tajikistan signals solidarity with Massoud by posthumously awarding country’s highest honour to his father, guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah Massoud (left)

PANJSHIR
Skabun 
Mata
Bazarak 
Rukha

TAKHAR
BAGHLAN
BADAKH- SHAN
KAPISA
NURISTAN
Shotul
Jabul-Saraj
PARWAN
Bagram
Jalalabad
BADAKHSHAN
Kabul
AFGHANISTAN

Sep 2: After two days of intense fighting, NRF forces repel Taliban assault from Jabul-Saraj, in Shotul district


16km 10 miles
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TAJIKISTAN
UZBEKISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
Kabul
PAKISTAN
Kandahar
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Sources: AFP, Reuters, Long War Journal Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS