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US pullout from Afghanistan is 50 percent complete: Pentagon
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Tuesday The US pullout from Afghanistan is more than 50 per cent complete, as it approaches its Sept 11 deadline to remove troops.
Since President Joe Biden ordered the departure from Afghanistan in April, the Department of Defence has withdrawn the equivalent of approximately 500 C-17 loads of material, the US military’s Central Command (Centcom) said in its weekly estimates.
The US military is tasked with removing its 2,500 troops, 16,000 civilian contractors and hundreds of tons of equipment that were inside Afghanistan by the Sept 11 date, which marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington.
So far Central Command has handed over control of six military installations to the Afghan ministry of defence, with the US military yet to withdraw from its main Bagram air base, about 50 kilometres north-east of Kabul.
“We anticipate additional transfers of bases and military assets in the future,” the Centcom statement said.
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