

Former army officers have said they were ordered to give up their weapons, and in return they received a document confirming their surrender and ensuring their safety. The Taliban leadership has repeatedly announced that workers of the former government, including members of the armed forces, have nothing to fear from them.

Two suspected militants were arrested, he said. The deputy provincial police chief, Tahir Mobariz, said that during the fighting, a woman and a man in the house detonated suicide vests, dying in the blasts, and third person was killed by gunfire. In the province's capital Jalalabad, a fierce, 8-hour gunbattle erupted Tuesday when Taliban forces raided a suspected hideout of IS militants, witnesses said. Taliban forces have also targeted people they suspect of supporting the Islamic State group in eastern Nangarhar province, an epicenter of IS attacks, the report said. Since that time, the Taliban have been struggling to deal with the collapse of the country's economy and have faced an increasingly deadly insurgency by the Islamic State group. forces and their allies withdrew from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of war. Kabul's fall capped a stunningly swift takeover by the insurgents, who had taken a string of cities as U.S. 15 when they swept into the capital Kabul as the internationally backed government collapsed.

'œThe pattern of killings has sown terror throughout Afghanistan, as no one associated with the former government can feel secure they have escaped the threat of reprisal,' Human Rights Watch said in the report.
