The first two are true in the sense that the U.S. withdrew its forces, the armed forces of the previous government collapsed, and the Taliban captured power, so that violence resulting from either insurgency or counter-insurgency ceased. The Taliban believe they can contain the threat from the National Resistance Front (NRF), based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The undeniable reduction of the number of deaths from armed conflict, however, is accompanied by an accelerating pace of attacks bordering on genocide against Hazaras and Shi’a as well as other targets by the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP);
