A recently posted video of Taliban using US issued optics against Afghan Army soldiers at one of their bases.
This really explains a lot about how fast and effective they have been with their recent offensive against the Afghan government.
An Afghan flag flies over an observation post, Pekha Valley, Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2017.
Photo by CPL Matthew DeVirgilio - DVIDS.
Afghan National Army soldiers stand in afternoon formation awaiting instructions at a checkpoint in western Afghanistan, Dec. 31, 2019.
Photo by Spc. Jeffery J. Harris - DVIDS
Fallen combat camera soldier’s final images released after 4 years
Photos of a 2013 explosion in Afghanistan, taken by the combat camera soldier who died shooting them, have been released in the latest issue of Military Review, showing in harrowing detail the final moments of the photographer and the mortar crew she was documenting.
Spec. Hilda Clayton, a combat documentation production specialist (MOS 25V) assigned to the 55th Signal Co. (Combat Camera), was attached to the 4th Armored Bde. Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Div., in Laghman Provice, Afghanistan. On July 2, 2013, she and an Afghan Army photographer were documenting a mortar validation exercise when the tube suddenly exploded.
Clayton, the Afghan Army photographer, and three other Afghan Army soldiers were killed in the blast. The photos, released after Clayton’s family gave permission, show the milliseconds after the tube exploded but before the blast reached her and her fellow photographer.
Cannabis in Afghanistan
Cannabis in Afghanistan has been cultivated for centuries, and experienced relatively little interference until the 1970s, whereafter it became an issue both in international politics and in the finance of the series of wars which occurred in Afghanistan for forty years.
Afghan and NATO troops continue the offensive to clear Kunduz city from Taliban, Oct 6, 2015
All-Afghan MD-530F helicopters & crews departed Kabul to participate in operations in Helmand Province Sept. 27.
(Photos by SSgt Sandra Welch)
Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan’s Counter-IED Directorate is empowering Afghans to protect themselves against improvised explosive devices, which continue to be a weapon of choice for insurgent forces. From awareness techniques for civilians, to training Afghan National Defense and Security Forces how to identify and disarm IEDs and unexploded ordnance, the C-IED team works tirelessly to arm Afghans with both the ability and knowledge to better protect themselves against these threats.
U.S., Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police forces conducted Operation Iron Triangle, a combat operation designed to disrupt networks of Taliban and other enemies of Afghanistan in Khogyani, Sherzad and Hisarak districts.
(Resolute Support Mission photo by Capt. Susan Harrington)
Task Force Solid disrupts force protection threats affecting the Bagram Ground Defense Area in order to secure Bagram Airfield and enable coalition operations throughout Afghanistan.
Afghan National Army EOD Advisers.
There are three Counter Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) Advisers embedded within Headquarters Resolute Support providing specialist, logistical and training support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. The three advisers are part of the 400 Australian Defence Force personnel deployed across Afghanistan in a variety of roles as part of Operation Highroad, supporting the NATO-led Resolute Support mission.
4th TOLAY Tactical Clearing Procedures
An Afghan soldier with the 4th TOLAY, 215th Corps, Afghanistan National Army (ANA), demonstrates how to provide security form the kneeling position during a tactical procedure rehearsal for the purpose of entering, clearing, and engaging enemy combatants in close quarters aboard Camp Shorabak, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 17, 2014. U.S. Marines with the Mobile Strike Force (MSF), Security Force Assistance Advisory Team (SFAAT) observe ANA instructors and soldiers, in order to assist and demonstrate modern warfighting techniques to the junior ANA warriors.
(Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan T. Spencer/RELEASED)
Terrorists caught down range.