Taliban sold 500,000 US weapons to terrorist groups: BBC report

Afghanistan's Taliban selling US weapons to Yemen's Houthis

Sources claim that half the weapons left behind by the US have been lost, sold or smuggled.

Half a million weapons lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups after US retreat from Afghanistan

Half a million weapons left behind in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal have since been lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups.According to a former Afghan official, the Taliban seized around one million weapons when the group regained control of the country in 2021. As the Taliban swept through Afghanistan in the same year, many Afghan soldiers either surrendered or fled, leaving behind their weapons and vehicles. Some of the military equi…

Taliban sold 500,000 US weapons to terrorist groups: BBC report

A recent report by a Britain's public broadcaster, the BBC, has stated that the Taliban have sold or smuggled approximately 500,000 American-made weapons to terrorist groups since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. These weapons—left behind by US forces—have since gone missing and are now allegedly in the hands of terrorist groups, including those linked to al-Qaeda, the report added. Citing a United Nations report, the outlet noted that the…

US weapons left in Afghanistan sold to militant groups, sources tell BBC

Sources say half a million US weapons obtained by the Taliban have been lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups.

The Militant Aftershock of Afghanistan

The chaotic aftermath of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 continues to reverberate across South Asia, with Pakistan emerging

Half a million weapons seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan have ended up in the hands of militant groups, according to the BBC, with the UN believing some of them have reached various branches of Al-Qaeda.