Commander Ahmad Massoud

And I went outside Afghanistan to find support for my brothers and sisters who were fighting against them.

I never had the intention to leave my country.

I just went out to find something.

Because you're a man of war, you're a military man yourself.

For fighting, you need resources.

For your guns to fire, you need bullets.

And we ran out of them.

And I was surrounded in a valley with no support from anywhere.

So I had to go and find something from somewhere.

But as soon as I left, unfortunately, the frontline collapsed.

The pressure was immense.

Once it happened, we gathered all the military committee and we said, okay, now that the pressure is too much, what should we do?

And we exchanged our strategy and we changed it.

And we knew that we are in a long term sort of strategy.

Now we have to build everything from zero.

That this is going to take longer than we expected and much harder work.

There were many people like me who were willing to give their life not to witness such tragedy and not to be able to do all of this hard work.

But God willed and also the people wanted us to take this hard path.

And so we changed the strategy from a conventional warfare to guerrilla warfare.

And to create the narrative against the Taliban.