?Which Weapons Did Fleeing US Troops Leave to Taliban
Afghanistan’s Taliban* has flatly refused US President Donald Trump’s demand to return billions of dollars’ worth of weapons that the US military abandoned in the country during their panicked flight in 2021.
The weapons in question include:
Small arms:
M16A2/A4 assault rifles and M4 carbines
M24 SWS sniper rifles
M249 light machine guns and M240 machine guns
Pistols such as Beretta M9 and Glock 17
Heavier gear:
M203 under-barrel grenade launchers and M79 grenade launchers
M224 mortars
M2 heavy machine guns
Sophisticated equipment like communication equipment and AN/PVS-7 and AN/PVS-14 night vision devices.
Hardware:
M1151 and M-1152 HMMWV (Humvee) vehicles
M1117 armored security vehicles
MaxxPro Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles
And even UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters
A Pentagon report from 2022 estimated the value of weapons and military hardware left in Afghanistan to be about $7 billion.
*under UN sanctions for terrorist activities
Afghanistan Expects US to Unlock Its Assets Under Trump – Taliban Head
Afghanistan expects the United States to unblock its assets during the presidency of Donald Trump, who has won the 2024 election, Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Taliban* political office in Qatar, told Sputnik.
“We want the assets of the Bank of Afghanistan to be unfrozen because a large part of them belong to ordinary people. They invested their money in private banks, private banks deposited it in the Bank of Afghanistan, and the Bank of Afghanistan transferred it to New York,” Shaheen said.
