Topic - Afghan Military

The military of Afghanistan is composed of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Army Air Force (formerly the Afghan Air Force) as well as scattered authorised militias around the country. Being a landlocked country, Afghanistan has no navy. The Afghan National Army currently has 134,000 (July 2010) soldiers - Source: Wikipedia

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Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)

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Taliban fighters pose on the back of a vehicle in the city of Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021, after they took this province from Afghan government. The Taliban seized two more provinces and approached the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence poses for photos with troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

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In this Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo, local militia group fighters walk past a building torched by Taliban fighters at Talawka village in Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Fighting has been raging in Kunduz for more than a month. Pushed back by army reinforcements that arrived days after the assault began, insurgents now occupy villages in Gor Tepa, 15 kilometers (12 miles) from the provincial capital, also called Kunduz. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Afghanistan National Army soldiers march during their graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 1, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Commander, International Security Assistance Force, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama has threatened to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan if a new security agreement is not signed by the end of the year, but there is no legal reason the U.S. has to resort to the "zero option," as administration officials have repeatedly claimed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Afghan policemen keep watch from atop city police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, following the killing of an American adviser by an Afghan policewoman, according to a senior Afghan police official. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Members of the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) line up to get counter-IED training at Forward Operating Base Warrior in the Gelan district of Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

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A Polish military armored vehicle (right) was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Ghazni, Afghanistan, southwest of Kabul, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Five Polish soldiers were killed in the blast. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

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