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Afghan troops are filmed laying
down arms as US general overseeing NATO exit says
he's shocked by how quickly they've surrendered to the Taliban
and 1,000 are caught fleeing the country
The Afghan army is collapsing across the country,
with videos posted by the Taliban
showing troops laying down their US-made weapons
and handing over the keys
to their Humvee armoured cars
The US left Bagram Airfield last week - its fortress
in the country for nearly 20 years - by slipping
away in the night without telling the base's new
Afghan commander who discovered
they had gone the next morning
However, General Austin Scott Miller,
commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan,
said he was shocked by how quickly
the Afghan National Army had
surrendered to the resurgent jihadists
'I don't like leaving friends in need,' he told ABC on Monday.
'We should be concerned. The loss of terrain and the
rapidity of that loss of terrain has to be concerning.
You look at the security situation, it's not good'
More than a thousand Afghan National Army
soldiers fled into Tajikistan from the northern
province of Badkhshan following clashes with
the resurgent jihadists on Sunday
Tajikistan said that the Afghans were
allowed to enter on the principle of 'good neighbourliness'
but called up 20,000 reservists to bolster its border
guard and prevent further flooding of the frontier]
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