According to Russian media reports, a gun battle recently broke out in a neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul, and according to witnesses, the sound of conventional light weapons and heavy weapons being fired at the scene was heard. Although gun battles were not a very unusual event in afghanistan, which has been at war for many years, the Taliban later confirmed that the two sides that clashed on the streets of Kabul at that time were the security forces of the current Afghan Taliban government and militants from ISIS-K(ISIS' Afghan branch, Khorasan Province).
Subsequently, the Afghan Taliban government said that in the exchange of fire, the ISIS militants were all killed, but the Taliban did not disclose their own personnel losses. For Afghanistan, devastated by years of war, most of the armed forces under the control of the Taliban government have been completely wiped out by the Tajik side, but ISIS is still entrenched in some areas, always threatening the security situation in Afghanistan, which some analysts say means that if the Afghan Taliban want to maintain its rule and regain long-lost peace, the Taliban must carry out large-scale anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan and draw a clear relationship with these organizations. Eliminate the remnants of Al-Qaida and terrorists in Khorasan province, or Afghanistan will never have peace.
Analysts pointed out that although the Western media portrayed Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban as "hell", for the Afghan people, being able to bring a peaceful environment is the Taliban's greatest "achievement". However, what surprised people was that ISIS, a terrorist organization that could not fight with Afghanistan with "eight poles", suddenly emerged, and its branch organization "ISIS-K K Khorasan Branch" expressed dissatisfaction with the "peace talks" between the Taliban and the United States, this terrorist organization wanted to fight the "United States to the end", and also said that the Afghan Taliban's failure to fight the "US military to the end" was a "betrayal of its faith", and thus carried out terrorist activities in Afghanistan. In fact, the purpose of Khorasan Province is to take advantage of the new Taliban government's foothold in maintaining stability and doing things in Afghanistan to gain momentum, with the intention of strengthening its own power in the chaotic Afghan situation.
According to reports, just the day before the shooting, an explosion occurred at a temple in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, at the entrance of the temple, when a memorial service for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabihula was being held inside the temple, and the explosion directly killed 5 civilians and injured several civilians at the scene, after which the Taliban government's internal affairs department revealed that the accident killed a total of 8 people and injured 20 people. Some experts suspect that the attack was carried out by Khorasan Province, so it is not certain that the bombing and the subsequent exchange of fire were completely independent, but some Western analysts believe that this is the Taliban's retaliation against Khorasan Province, and it is also one of the key actions of the Taliban to "completely eliminate" Khorasan Province's secret stronghold in the capital Kabul.
Analysts believe that Afghan society has experienced war for decades, and now the relative security situation that has been won so hard is very rare, and now some extremist organizations are still unwilling to spare the Afghan people, to make Afghanistan continue to be unstable, this terrorist act will make it further lose its living soil in Afghanistan, especially the ISIS organization, whose core organization has been completely destroyed in Syria, and is still active only in a few regional branches, unable to connect with the Middle East region in its most rampant period. On the one hand, the Taliban must safeguard the security situation in Afghanistan; on the other hand, by combating terrorism, by drawing a clear line with various terrorist organizations in the territory and completely abolishing exchanges, the Taliban will be qualified to participate in the activities of the international community, gain the trust of neighboring countries, and dispel the suspicions of the countries in the region about their ability to govern.