The first five months since the withdrawal of US troops and the forces of its NATO allies and operational partners, which led to a hasty Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, have been marked with recurrent border disputes and armed clashes, the most recent incident of which became the shootings at the Afghan-Turkmen border and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border conflict across the so-called Durand line. In late December 2021 and early January 2022, the Taliban forces disrupted the construction of a security fence by the Pakistani military in their attempt to fence most of the 2,600 km Afghanistan-Pakistan border, as mortars were fired across the border.
