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The main reason the revolt spread so widely was the disintegration of the Afghan army in a series of insurrections. [93] The numbers of the Afghan army fell from 110,000 men in 1978 to 25,000 by 1980. [94] The U.S. embassy in Kabul cabled to Washington the army was melting away "like an ice floe in a tropical sea". [95]
When a political solution failed, the Afghan government and the Soviet military decided to solve the conflict militarily. The change from a political to a military solution came gradually. It began in January 1981: Karmal doubled wages for military personnel, issued several promotions, and one general and thirteen colonels were decorated.
The current flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is a plain white flag with the black words of the shahada in the centre. The white stands for "the (Islamic Movement of Taliban's) purity of faith and government"; the flag incorporated the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith, after 1997. [12] [13]
U.S. troops in Afghanistan had better equipment, training and funding than the Taliban. AP Photo/Rahmat GulThe speed and efficiency with which Taliban forces were able to complete the occupation ...
Senior Pentagon officials said the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to a 2020 U.S. agreement with the Taliban that promised a complete U.S. troop ...
The Afghan Commando Brigades were attached to the Afghan Army. Some were under the control of KhAD-i-Nezami (the Afghan Army’s military intelligence wing), having airborne assault capabilities until 1988, just before the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. 37th Commando Battalion (Kabul, 1986) Formerly the 26th Airborne Regiment
The rout of Afghan forces as Taliban fighters take one provincial city after another provides a stark answer to anyone wondering about the success of two decades of U.S.-led efforts to build a ...
The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) [3] and also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since ...