(VOVWORLD) - The Pentagon's Central Command announced on Tuesday that 90% of the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan has been completed.
 US troops in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
CentCom said it has officially handed over seven former US bases to Afghan security forces and has evacuated the equivalent of nearly 1,000 C-17 air freighter loads of equipment from Afghanistan, ahead of the September deadline to complete the pullout.
On Friday, US forces handed over the Bagram air base north of Kabul, the main centre of US military operations in Afghanistan for most of the past two decades of conflict. Roughly 650 US troops are expected to remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats after the main American military force completes its withdrawal.