The Taliban are now brazenly showing off the US military equipment — including Black Hawk helicopters, dozens of armored vehicles and weapons — abandoned by US troops amid President Biden’s ...

But the greater cost has been moral: the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who served alongside American forces.

An exact accounting of the military equipment currently in the Taliban's hands is not available, though one expert estimated that the total value was closer to $10 billion. In August 2021 ...

The Biden administration admitted on Tuesday that the Taliban had captured a significant amount of U.S. military equipment originally supplied to Afghan security forces during the militants ...

Communications, explosive detection, night-vision and other surveillance equipment was also in the Kabul government’s inventory when the Taliban took over. The Afghan military had 316,260 small ...

The convoy, which was parading as a celebration of inaugurating the new "Islamic Emirate Army," drove down Kandahar’s main road past onlookers as religious music was played from loudspeakers.

But huge amounts still fell to the Taliban in August 2021 when the US-trained military crumbled and surrendered to the Islamist militants. The equipment includes aircraft, air-to-ground munitions ...

President-elect Donald Trump says that future financial assistance to Afghanistan will be contingent upon the return of U.S. military equipment by the Taliban leaders currently in power.

It’s worth noting that this analysis may be a woefully inadequate underestimate of the amount of military equipment that fell into the Taliban’s hands during the fall of Kabul. Indeed ...

Even if Trump is advised to negotiate with the Taliban to bring back American military equipment, the process will be far more arduous than it appears. “To return it, just logistically ...