The Taliban's worst nightmare: Resistance forces train in the Afghan mountains as they vow never to bend the knee to the new rulers of Kabul.

- Resistance forces trained in Panjshir Valley, strategic fortress sitting north of Kabul in Hindu Kush mountains
- Fighters waded through water with logs of wood over their back while others trained with their rifles
- Anti-Taliban uprising forces have vowed to defend the 170,000 residents in the region, most of them Tajiks
- Resistance forces in Afghanistan have vowed to continue in their fight against the Taliban as they trained in the Panjshir Valley, a strategic fortress which sits north of Kabul.
Hundreds of fighters, who have never surrendered to the new rulers of Kabul, were seen wading through water with logs of wood over their back while others trained with their rifles as they prepared for the possible arrival of Taliban forces.
Elsewhere, others resistance members, dressed in military gear and carrying weapons, were spotted marching through the deserted streets of the mountain enclave.
The anti-Taliban uprising forces, known as the Northern Alliance, have vowed to fight on to the last and defend the 170,000 residents, most of them Tajiks, who live in the Panjshir valley, which lies in the Hindu Kush mountains north of the Afghan capital.
It comes as the Taliban claimed they were sending hundreds of fighters to the region and had the Panjshir surrounded.
Resistance forces wade through the water with logs on their back as they train in the Panjshir Valley, a strategic fortress which sits north of Kabul, Afghanistan Afghanistan's last bastion against the Taliban train with their rifles as they prepare for the possible arrival of Taliban forces The resistance forces have vowed to to continue their fight against the Taliban and have never surrendered to the new rulers of Kabul Afghanistan's last bastion against the Taliban, is being led by Ahmad Massoud, 32, the British-educated son of a legendary freedom fighter in the Panjshir Valley
Mr Massoud, who was trained by the British military at Sandhurst, has vowed that no Taliban fighter will pass through the narrow gorge into the valley.
He was only 12 when his father, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was as a formidable guerrilla fighter, known as the 'Afghan Napoleon' and 'the Lion of the Panjshir', was murdered by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda assassins posing as Al Jazeera journalists - two days before 9/11.
Mr Massoud, who was forced to leave his homeland, then went to secondary school in Iran before training for a year at Sandhurst and from King's College London in 2015 graduated with a degree in War Studies.
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