A large portion of the Afghan Air Force has ended up in neighboring Uzbekistan, after hundreds of Afghan service members used U.S.-supplied planes and helicopters to flee the Taliban, U.S. officials said
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, U.S. officials said. The planes and helicopters carried a total of 585 members of Afghan forces with them, the officials said.The U.S. embassies of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.Join Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Matt Murray and chief foreign-affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov for a live Q&A about the collapse of Afghanistan’s government to the Taliban and the evolving humanitarian situation there.
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materiel has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” Mr. Sullivan said at the White House. “And obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
Thousands of people rushed to Kabul’s international airport as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. WSJ’s Yaroslav Trofimov describes his journey from the city to catch an evacuation flight. Photo: AFP, the U.S. touted the Afghan Air Force as one of the most lethal components of the country’s armed forces. Its inventory included prop-driven attack and reconnaissance planes as well as Black Hawk helicopters.
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