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The withdrawal of US forces and equipment from Afghanistan is more than 90 per cent complete, the Defence Department said on Tuesday. The amount of material flown out so far is equivalent to about 984 C-17 transport planes worth of cargo while 17,074 pieces of equipment have been returned to the US, the department said. US forces have handed over seven facilities to the Afghan Defence Ministry since President Joe Biden ’s decision to pull the military out after almost two decades of involvement in the war-torn country. Late last month, the US government had said it wanted to complete...
