Taftan: Fatemiyoun forces ambushed in Chah Ahmad heights, killed and wounded

Following DIAR's earlier report on the armed clashes in Taftan on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, two Baluch human rights groups announced that a number of Fatemiyoun paramilitaries, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were killed in an ambush by armed men in the Chah Ahmad area of Taftan county in Sistan and Baluchestan province.

According to Haalvsh, about 18 motorcycles carrying Fatemiyoun fighters were sent from the Sarkal Qalehbid base toward the heights of the area, where they were ambushed by armed men. The group said the clashes had continued for more than seven hours by the time of its report and that more than 20 Fatemiyoun fighters had been killed or wounded. The Baluchistan Human Rights Documentation Network, citing its sources, also confirmed that a number of these fighters were killed in the Loop heights, but gave no figure.

Response with mortars and drones

According to the two groups, after taking casualties the government forces targeted the heights of the area with mortars and drones. Media affiliated with the IRGC claimed that a number of the armed men had been killed, but the exact casualties on either side have not been independently confirmed, and the identity of the attackers is also unclear.

Background to the clashes in Sistan and Baluchestan

Earlier the same day, the IRGC had reported two armed clashes in Zahedan and Chah Ahmad in Taftan with at least six dead. HRANA had also announced that at least 94 people have been killed in armed clashes and military operations in this province between late March and 10 October. The Fatemiyoun Division, made up of Afghan fighters whom the IRGC organised to fight in Syria, is now also being deployed in Sistan and Baluchestan.

Fatemiyoun forces were ambushed by armed men in the Chah Ahmad heights of Taftan and fought for more than seven hours.