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  2. Afghan Army - Wikipedia

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    From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the Afghan Army received training and equipment mostly from the Soviet Union. The Royal Afghan Army was also photographed wearing white “snegurochka” winter suits in snowy areas of the country [31] and also had armored riverboats in their inventory, as seen in a parade in Kabul.

  3. Afghan Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes (2024–present) - Wikipedia

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    According to Afghan media, around 1:30 AM, Pakistani forces fired rockets at Taliban positions, and the Afghan army retaliated with heavy artillery. [77] [78] The situation reportedly calmed just before dawn. [79] At least three villages in Afghanistan Airukam, Kaga, and Garab were reportedly hit by Pakistani mortar strikes. [80]

  5. Afghan National Army Commando Corps - Wikipedia

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    Around 500–600 remaining Afghan troops, made up mostly of Afghan commandos, were reported to have refused to surrender to the Taliban in Kabul, and instead joined up with U.S. forces at Kabul International Airport, helping them secure the outer perimeter of the airport during the evacuation in August 2021.

  6. Afghan National Security Forces - Wikipedia

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    The Afghan National Security Forces consisted of Ministry of Defence [6]. Afghan National Army (ANA): [7] In December 2020 the U.S. Department of Defense wrote that the ANA General Staff commanded and controlled all of Afghanistan’s ground and air forces, including "the ANA conventional forces, the Afghan Air Force (AAF), the Special Mission Wing (SMW), the ANA Special Operations Command ...

  7. Fall of Kabul (2021) - Wikipedia

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    Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...

  8. Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

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    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

  9. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) - Wikipedia

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    On 23 July 2016, Afghan and US forces began an offensive to clear Nangarhar province of Islamic State militants hours after the Kabul bombing, the operation was dubbed "Wrath of the Storm" involving both Afghan regular army and special forces and is the Afghan army's first major strategic offensive of the summer. The estimated size of the ISIL ...