Washington, Jun 8: The withdrawal of US and allied forces from Afghanistan is more than halfway through, the US Army said on Tuesday.
“US Central Command estimates that we have completed greater than 50 per cent of the entire retrograde process,” the US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a press release today.
Since US President Joe Biden issued the order to withdrawal by September 11, 2021, the US Defense Department has retrograded the equivalent of approximately 500 C-17 cargo aircraft loads of material out of Afghanistan and has turned nearly 13,000 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency for disposition, the release said.
Apart from this, the US has officially handed over six facilities to the Afghan Ministry of Defense, with plans for additional transfers in support of Afghan defence forces working to defend the nation, the release said.
