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PARWAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Gun in hand, 55-year-old Dost Mohammad Salangi recites poetry as he leads a small group of men to a look-out post high in the rugged hills of Parwan province, north of the Afghan capital Kabul.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Armed men attend a gathering to announce their support for Afghan security forces and that they are ready to fight against the Taliban, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan June 23, 2021. REUTERS\/Stringer<\/figcaption>

Heavily bearded and wearing a traditional circular pakol hat to keep off the sun, he has a warning for the Islamist militant Taliban movement, which has increased attacks on Afghan forces and claimed more territory as foreign troops withdraw.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they impose war on us, oppress us and encroach on women and people\u2019s property, even our seven-year-old children will be armed and will stand against them,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Salangi is one of hundreds of former \u201cmujahideen\u201d fighters and civilians who have felt compelled to take up arms to help the army repel a growing Taliban insurgency.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s ascendancy on the ground comes as the last U.S.-led international forces prepare to leave after two decades of fighting that ended with no clear victory for either side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to protect our country … now there is no choice as the foreign forces abandon us,\u201d said Farid Mohammed, a young student who joined a local anti-Taliban leader from Parwan.<\/p>\n

He was speaking as the German military concluded the withdrawal of the second largest contingent of foreign troops after the United States with around 150,000 soldiers deployed over the past two decades, many of them serving more than one tour in the country.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Joe Biden and NATO said in mid-April they would pull out the roughly 10,000 foreign troops still in Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York that prompted the mission.<\/p>\n

The United Nations envoy for Afghanistan said this week the Taliban had taken more than 50 of 370 districts and was positioned to control provincial capitals as the country looked increasingly unstable as foreign military support ended.<\/p>\n

Armed mainly with old assault rifles, pistols and grenade launchers, men like Salangi and Mohammed have joined local shopkeepers and traders as part of a loosely-formed Public Uprising Force trying to reclaim some of those areas.<\/p>\n

Ajmal Omar Shinwari, a spokesman for the Afghan defence and security forces, said Afghans keen to take up arms against the Taliban were being absorbed intro the structure of territorial army forces.<\/p>\n

But some political analysts warn of the growing risk of a return to civil war as more groups took up arms.<\/p>\n

Faced with rising violence, President Ashraf Ghani visited Washington in June to meet Biden, who pledged U.S. support to Afghanistan but said Afghans must decide their own future.<\/p>\n

Talks to try and find a political settlement in Afghanistan have stalled, although the head of the Afghan peace council has said they should not be abandoned despite the surge in Taliban attacks.<\/p>\n

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