Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The base was of particular importance to the US military because it had previously hosted thousands of marines deployed to Helmand during the troop surge. During the attack, the Taliban, wearing Afghan military uniforms and using military equipment regularly used by the Afghan army, fooled the soldiers defending the base.
Unknown number captured from former Afghan police. [6] Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965. Romania. Assault rifle. Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] Zastava M70. Yugoslavia.
On 21 April 2017, at least ten Taliban fighters attacked Camp Shaheen, headquarters of the 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA), near Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province. The death toll was unclear—official Afghan government statements said about 140 people were killed and 160 injured, while media reports said as many as 256 were dead.
Videos and images released by the Taliban show that the group has seized huge stocks of American weapons, vehicles and military drones.
On December 25, another video was released showing Bergdahl wearing sunglasses, a combat uniform, and helmet. [50] [51] [52] He described his place of birth, deployment to Afghanistan, and subsequent capture and made several statements regarding his humane treatment by his captors, contrasting this to the abuses suffered by insurgents in prisons.
On 7 October 2021, a former Taliban commander was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York for the 26 June 2008 attack on an American military convoy that killed three U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter, and 27 October 2008 shooting down of a U.S. military helicopter during the War in Afghanistan (the conflict became non-interstate ...
Content of the video. The video shows four men dressed in full U.S. Marine combat gear laughing and joking as they urinate on what appear to be dead men somewhere in a rural part of Afghanistan. [5] [6] News sources describe the dead men as Taliban insurgents. There is a wheelbarrow next to them and the scene appears as rural farming area.
Women wearing burqas at a market in Kabul in September 2021, one month after the Taliban seized control for the second time.. The treatment of women by the Taliban refers to actions and policies by two distinct Taliban regimes in Afghanistan which are either specific or highly commented upon, mostly due to discrimination, since they first took control in 1996.