Trump is pushing to regain ‘billions of dollars’ military equipment left in Afghanistan in withdrawal
President Donald Trump He wants to regain their equipment worth billions of dollars of American troops that left in Afghanistan after their withdrawal 2021 from the country.
“We left billions, tens of billions of dollars of valuable equipment, brand new trucks,” Trump said during his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “You see them showing him every year or their small roadway, somewhere where they have a road and drive, you know, waving the flag and talking about America … It’s all the top of the line things. I think we should bring back a lot of that equipment.”
The Taliban seized most of the equipment worth more than $ 7 billion, leaving US troops in Afghanistan at the time of withdrawal in August 2021, according to a report of the Ministry of Defense published in 2022.
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US President Donald Trump brings remarks during a cabinet meeting at the White House 26 February 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)
Although US troops removed or destroyed most of the main equipment used during withdrawal, military equipment was left in Afghanistan, including aircraft, ground vehicles and other weapons. The state of these items remains unknown, but the Pentagon said in the report that it is likely that it is likely to operate without maintaining the American performers.
More details about how to take the equipment to the remaining in Afghanistan are not immediately available, and the White House did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital comment.
President Joe Biden He moved to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan in 2021, based on the plans of the first Trump administration 2020. With the leaders of Taliban, to end the war in the region.
Thirteen US service members were killed during the withdrawal procedure for suicide bombing at Abbey Gate, outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport, and the Taliban quickly took control of Kabul.
Trump’s comments on Wednesday arrived in response to questions about whether he was thinking about the release of military leaders who were overseening. While Trump said he would not send a defense secretary Pete Hegsetth In what actions the Pentagon should take these leaders, Trump said he would “release each of them.”
Nevertheless, several key leaders involved in withdrawal no longer serve in the military. Commander of the US Central Command at the time of withdrawal, Marin General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., has since withdrawn, and in 2024 he took over complete property for the loss of American troops.
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General Kenneth McKenzie, former commander of the United States Central Command, said he was responsible for members of the lost services during the withdrawal of Afghanistan. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“I was the whole commander, and I and I bear full military responsibility for what happened in Abbey Gate,” McKenzie said Foreign House Committee in March 2024.
In addition, the former president of the joint head of the headquarters, retired army general Mark Milley, told MPs at the same discussion to believe that the evacuation should occur before and that more factors have contributed to the withdrawal failure. Both McKenzie and Milley told the legislators that they advised Biden to retain some American troops in Afghanistan after withdrawing most of the US forces.
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“The outcome in Afghanistan was the result of many decisions from many years of war,” Milley said the legislators. “Like any complex phenomena, there was no causal factor that determined the outcome.”
The US Central Command oversees military operations in the Middle East.
