The Taliban has said that "hundreds" of its fighters are heading to the Panjshir Valley, one of the few parts of Afghanistan not yet controlled by the group.
Former Afghan vice-president Amrullah Saleh also tweeted that Taliban have amassed forces at the Panjshir entrance and that Resistance Forces are putting up a fight. "See you," he dared Taliban in his tweet.
In Panjshir, Ahmad Massoud, the son of legendary commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, has been holding a flicker of resistance to the Taliban after their takeover of Afghanistan. Massoud has refused to accept the Taliban rule and is seeking to assemble a guerrilla force to counter the extremist group.
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Panjshir Valley is long known as an anti-Taliban bastion.
"Hundreds of Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are heading towards the state of Panjshir to control it, after local state officials refused to hand it over peacefully," the Taliban wrote on its Arabic Twitter account.
Since the Taliban took control of the country following a lightning charge into the capital Kabul, thousands of people have made their way to Panjshir, according to a spokesman for anti-Taliban forces.
Former vice-president Amrullah Saleh, who has refused to bow down to the Taliban has also moved to the Panjshir Valley to join Massoud's resistance.
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