Two Taliban members killed in internal clash in Badakhshan: Sources

Two Taliban members were killed and another was wounded in an internal clash in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, according to people familiar with the incident.

Sources told Amu TV on Thursday that the fighting broke out between two Taliban figures identified as Rahmatullah Emarati and Haji Safa, resulting in the deaths of two of their associates, Mohammad Salim and Mohammad Ewaz.

The circumstances surrounding the dispute were not immediately clear, and Taliban have not commented publicly on the incident.

The clash is the latest in a series of reported internal confrontations among Taliban members in Badakhshan, a province that has seen periodic tensions between rival factions.

In one incident last year, fighting erupted between local Taliban fighters and a commander identified by sources as Abdulrahman Ammar, a former Taliban mining official in the district of Shahr-e Buzurg. The confrontation lasted several days.

At the time, a spokesman for the Taliban police command said one person had been killed in clashes with what he described as a group of 12 armed individuals, and that the group’s leader had been detained.

However, sources told Amu TV that the commander had not been arrested and had instead retreated with his fighters into mountainous areas.

Analysts say the recurrence of such incidents has raised questions about cohesion within Taliban ranks in parts of northern Afghanistan, particularly in areas where local and non-local fighters have previously clashed.