SHAMELESS: Taliban fighters dubbed themselves the "Victory Force" in a parade of stolen US military gear as the militants have made off with up to £13billion worth of abandoned weapons and vehicles.

Pictures released by the propaganda arm of the Taliban showed their fighters from the "Badri 313" special forces unit armed with US guns and riding in US armoured vehicles.

Taliban fighters appear to treat their stolen US equipment as trophies having seized them from the retreating Afghan army as they stormed towards Kabul.

Proud to show them off, photos reveal how the militants have painted the slogan "Victorious Force" on the side of a US-made M1117 armoured transport - with that one vehicle alone being worth $800,000.

And other images show them mounted in distinctive Humvees - which are worth $220,000 each - and Ford pick-up trucks which were once used by the Afghan Army.

Taliban fighters can be seen wearing US-style military uniforms complete with helmets which appear to feature flip down night vision goggles.

Cradled in their arms are US made weapons, with most appearing to be armed with US-made M4A1 carbines - which are worth around $700 each.

Badri 313 fighters are a military unit which have been reported to be active in Kabul - and they are named after a key battle in Islamic history from 624AD.

The new "Victory Force" unit is the latest brazen taunt to the US whose muddled withdrawal from Afghanistan has been credited with handing power back to the Taliban.

The consequence of the rapid pullout led to the collapse of the Afghan army and handed billions of pounds worth of equipment to the Taliban as they raided weapons caches.

Trading in the terrorists favourite, the AK-47, Taliban fighters are now regularly seen cradling military-grade US assault weapons.

Pictures of the so-called "Victory Force" would be indistinguishable from a Western nation's military, if not for the distinctive white Taliban flags flying from their Humvees.

The US has spent an estimated £13billion arming and equipping the Afghan army since 2005 - and officials have admitted that anything which was left behind and not destroyed is now in the hands of Taliban.

They are believed to have tens of thousands of small arms, thousands or armoured vehicles, and dozens of aircraft - including helicopters and drones.

Many of these weapons were simply abandoned or even handed over as the Afghan forces collapsed - sometimes with a fight - against the advance of the Taliban.

US commanders removed planes, heavy armour and high tech equipment - but untold numbers of other gear which had been given to the Afghan army was left behind.

"Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now," one U.S. official told Reuters.

And it is feared some of the weapons could fall into the hands of splinter terrorist groups - such as ISIS - or even Russia and China.

Getting an exact accounting of all the weapons in Afghanistan after almost 20 years of constant war is very difficult - but according to a 2017 official US report there could be as much as:

• 208 aircraft
• 75,898 vehicles
• 599,690 weapons
• 162,643 pieces of communications tech
• 16,191 pieces of surveillance gear

Elias Yousif, deputy director of the Center for International Policy’s Security Assistance Monitor, told The Hill: "When an armed group gets their hands on American-made weaponry, it's sort of a status symbol. It's a psychological win.

"Clearly, this is an indictment of the U.S. security cooperation enterprise broadly.

"It really should raise a lot of concerns about what is the wider enterprise that is going on every single day, whether that's in the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia."

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Hope these powerful weapons hasn't fallen into wrong hands.

Joe Biden just gave his thumbs-up for the equipping and support of terrorism in Afghanistan and the world in general

Very soon we'll be seeing pictures of Nigeria like this when our army eventually gets overrun by Boko Haram.

One of the most failed us foreign policies that will go down in history!!

The west arming terrorist and destabilising regions since time immemorial. Looking at the pictures again, then fine shaa. They look like real commandos.

Captors that still admire to dress and imitate their Captives

Talibans ti take over

Jashub:
Joe Biden just gave his thumbs-up for the equipping and support of terrorism in Afghanistan and the world in general

those equipments and weapons were given to the Afghan military for the security of Afghanistan while the US and NATO leave. But they surrendered without a fight but as usual agendas must agend

The slammers in their military regalia.

Should we call them Talibanistan SEALs or Marines

Evil men.

If only East can get this kind of Arms to defend our states against ......

It is all staged.
US knows talibans would take over afghanistan. US doesn't like weak regime in term of internal security. Afghanistan has been infiltrated by talibans. Most people in Afghanistan army are of pashtun tribe. Most talibans are of pashtun tribe. Corruption kills afghanistan military.

I don't even know what to type

Over $13b worth of weapon

How much is Afghanistan worth by the way, cos I don't understand why the Americans invested so much in Afghanistan civil war just for Taliban to take over these assets like picking tomatoes from the garden

I see a coalition springing up soon to oppose taliban, then the US will secretly arm the coalition, it's a vicious cycle

You know what??
We are not in Afang soup s0, let us rest with their business

IPOB and Taliban are both terrorists

Religion of piss

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Na the people wey USA has been training for years



If they're not training them they would have move all this military equipment out since.

The entire universe minus Islam is equals to peace

The devil has no other business than destroying things all in the name of a religion that was masterminded from the pit of hell, sadly, many are blind to realise that simple fact

The earth would be lot more safer without Islam

Alhamdulillah.
The World is falling to Islamic Rule. Just with time. Victory to the Mujahideen.
America has been defeated

When you kill all your people, I wonder who you people will lead.

Taliban don upgrade

I see Talibans bringing democracy to all Arab nations. They may not be that bad

And they will use that to start killing each others