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US troops will also help in evacuation of Afghans who worked with the military during the nearly two-decade war. President Joe Biden authorized on Saturday an additional 1,000 US troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of US troops to ensure what Biden called an orderly and safe drawdown of American ...
WASHINGTON—Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely—in some cases without a shot fired—that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not only political power but also US-supplied firepower—guns, ammunition, helicopters and…
Die USA haben sehr viel in die Ausrüstung der afghanischen Sicherheitskräfte gesteckt, hochmoderne Waffen, die jetzt in den Händen der Taliban sind. Das macht den Verfall der Streitkräfte umso bitterer.
Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not only political power but also U.S.-supplied firepower — guns, ammunition, helicopters…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan...