KABUL: Taliban forces held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday using American-made armored vehicles captured and Russian helicopters on the screen showing their sustainable transformation from rebel forces to troops.
The Taliban operated as rebel fighters for two decades but had used large stock of weapons and equipment left behind when the former government supported by the West collapsed in August to overhaul their troops.
This parade is associated with the graduation of 250 newly trained soldiers, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Enalatullah Khwarazmi said.
This exercise involved dozens of Made Made US armored security vehicles that drove slowly up and down on the main kabul road with the MI-17 helicopter patrol the head.
Many soldiers carry Made-M4 assault rifles.
Most of the Taliban troops and equipment are now used are supplied by Washington to the government supported by America in Kabul in an effort to build Afghan National forces that are able to fight the Taliban.
The troops melted by escaping from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani from Afghanistan – leaving the Taliban to take over the main military assets.
Taliban officials said that pilots, mechanics and other specialists from the former Afghan National Army would be integrated into new forces, which also began to wear conventional military uniforms in a traditional Afghan clothing which was usually worn by their fighters.
According to last year’s report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan reconstruction (Sigar), the US government was transferred to the Afghan government of more than $ 28 billion from defense articles and services, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, night vision, aircraft, and supervision systems, From 2002 to 2017.
Some airplanes were adjacent to Central Asian countries to escape from Afghan forces, but the Taliban had inherited other aircraft.
It is still unclear how many operations.
When US troops departed, they destroyed more than 70 aircraft, dozens of armored vehicles and defective air defenses before flying out of Hamid Karzai International Airport Kabul after a chaotic evacuation operation.