Afghan Taliban announce through a loudspeaker that jail door is open for all prisoners to come out, district chief surrenders to Taliban including 200 personnel
Qabil - Afghan Taliban attacked Qadis district of Badghis province of Afghanistan. According to details, according to media reports, the Afghan Taliban released all prisoners from Badghis jail. After the attack on the jail, it was announced through a loudspeaker that the door of the jail was open and all the prisoners should come out. The Taliban released all the general and special prisoners from the jail.
Khawaja Murad, an Afghan army officer, surrendered to the Taliban in Qala-e-New, the capital of Badghis. District chief Khudada Tayyab also surrendered to the Taliban, including 200 personnel. It should be noted that the withdrawal of more than 90% of US troops from Afghanistan has been completed.
According to US Central Command, troops and equipment used in a war-torn country are being transferred back to the United States or other countries.
The Pentagon said in a statement that military equipment had been flown out of Afghanistan on 984 C-130 cargo planes since President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw. Of those, 17,074 military equipment has been handed over to the Defense Logistics Agency for disposal. The Pentagon added that the United States has formally given more than seven of its army installations to the Afghan Ministry of Defense.
The withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan began on May 1, according to US President Joe Biden. At that time, there were between two and a half thousand and three and a half thousand US troops and about seven thousand NATO troops in Afghanistan. Now only a small number of them remain in Afghanistan. The US military handed over most of its equipment to Afghan security forces and Many military equipment and tools have been defused and dumped in such places.
According to Bran University's war cost plan, the United States has poured 20 2 trillion into Afghanistan over the past two decades. President Joe Biden's administration announced in April that it would withdraw the remaining troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. According to an agreement reached between the Afghan Taliban and the former Trump administration in February 2020, the withdrawal of US troops from the war-torn country was to be completed by May 1 this year.