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After twenty years of United States efforts, Afghan military faces a grim outlook

After twenty years of United States efforts, Afghan military faces a grim outlook SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 28, 2021, 03:15 PM IST Share Synopsis Ammunition shortages are just one of the serious and systemic issues plaguing soldiers and police officers who will soon have to defend Afghanistan and themselves without U.S. aircraft overhead or American troops on the ground. New York Times Afghan soldiers, left, and American soldiers blew up a Taliban firing position in the village of Layadira, in Afghanistan s Kandahar Province, on Feb. 14, 2013 Related The Taliban attack on a police outpost at the edge of the city began at dusk, with the muted chatter of machine-gun fire and the thud of explosions. The men under attack radioed Capt. Mohammed Fawad Saleh at his headquarters, several miles away, desperate for help.

Inside the shadowy world of militias luring unsuspecting Afghans to fight, or die

Inside the shadowy world of militias luring unsuspecting Afghans to fight, or die Firstpost 04-02-2021 The New York Times © Provided by Firstpost Inside the shadowy world of militias luring unsuspecting Afghans to fight, or die Mazar-i-Sharif: A network of shadowy power brokers and warlords, bankrolled by the Afghan government and the national police force, is luring disadvantaged people into joining militias, sometimes under false pretenses, out of a growing desperation to hold territory around highways in the country’s north, according to former militia members and local officials. These key arteries, which are the few means of road travel between the provinces, have increasingly become the front line for an emboldened Taliban insurgency. To protect them, local officials in Balkh province are manning highway outposts with often untrained Afghans, who are given little more than a rifle and the promise of a paycheck if they survive. Others have been of

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