Massive ammunition depot found in Afghan capital Kabul

Massive ammunition depot found in Afghan capital Kabul

Official says heavy, light weapons, and ammunition recovered during construction of road

By Islamuddin Sajid

ISLAMABAD (AA) - A massive ammunition depot was found in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the Taliban claimed on Tuesday.

Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for Kabul police, said that a huge cache of heavy and light weapons and ammunition was recovered during the construction of a road in Kabul.

An old weapons depot was discovered during the construction of a road in Kabul city, Zadran wrote on X.

He added that thousands of light weapons, bullets, rocket rounds, and pressure mines were recovered from the site.

Afghanistan remained a battleground for decades since the Soviet invasion in 1979 and later infighting between rival groups in Afghanistan.

In 2001, the US forces invaded Kabul, aiming to eradicate the al-Qaeda terrorist network, capture its leader Osama bin Laden, and oust the then-Taliban regime following the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the US. After the 20-year-long conflict, the US forces left Afghanistan in August 2021.

According to the US media, following the withdrawal from Kabul in 2021, the US forces left behind over $7 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan, including aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment, and other materials.

“The US gave a total of $18.6 billion of equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to August 2021,” CNN reported, citing a Congressionally-mandated report from the US Department of Defense submitted last year.

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