[ToloNews] Public uprisings against the Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
are expanding in various regions of Afghanistan as the Taliban continues to mount attacks against government forces.
In northern Jawzjan province, there are reports that women have taken up arms to fight the Taliban.
In Kohdman village in northern Kabul province, many armed residents filled the main road, pledging to fight the Taliban.
In Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
and Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman .The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property. After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
provinces in the east, the people have taken up arms to fight the Taliban, and also in the western province of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
"At this point, the politics of bullying cannot rule, these gunnies say that they will not allow the Taliban to rule them and burn their gardens and fields as in the past," said Mir Naeem Haidari, deputy head of Kohdman council.
Paying tribute to the ANDSF, MP Hazrat Ali said: "I know that you face hard days, but I congratulate you because you are the winners."
"We pledge to the Ministry of Defense that we will defend against the enemy," said Ali Khan, a fighter with the public uprising forces.
This comes as the Taliban has taken over 70 districts in the country in the past two months.
I thonk some of those must have been conquered and lost several times... 
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