Shii News – Indian Express (NY Times): ‘The bloody uprising against the Taliban led by one of their own’

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/afghanistan-taliban-uprising-mahdi-8098753/

‘The rumbling of engines echoed across the valley at dusk as scores of men with mismatched camouflage and mud-caked Kalashnikovs descended into the town in northern Afghanistan.

Many had driven hours down the snow-capped mountains to reach the town and join forces with Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a former Shiite commander within the mostly Sunni Taliban who had recently renounced the new Taliban government and seized control of this district.’

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