The United States has left $ 7 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan

The equipment - sent to the Afghan government for 16 years - is now in a country ruled by the same enemy that the United States has been trying to destroy for the past two decades - the Taliban

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28/04/2022

Thursday, 28 April 2022, 13:27 Updated: 13:38

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$ 7 billion worth of military equipment is left behind in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a new report by the US Department of Defense obtained by the Seanan network

. In the last two decades, the Taliban has no intention of returning to Afghanistan to "return or destroy" the equipment, a congressional report said.

The United States has provided the National Security and Defense Forces of Afghanistan (ANDSF) with $ 18.6 billion worth of equipment from 2005 to August 2021, according to the report

. , Military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment and so on, according to the report.

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A Taliban fighter at a destroyed CIA base in Kabul (Photo: GettyImages)

According to the report, "Most of the equipment left behind in Afghanistan requires technical expertise that Afghan forces have learned from contractors employed by the Department of Defense."

The U.S. Department of Defense is required to submit a report to Congress "Were taken out of the country, or remained there," the March 2022 report said.

Five Mi-17 helicopters in Afghanistan were officially transferred to Ukraine in 2022.

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