Anonymous ID: cada4c April 19, 2018, 8:52 p.m. No.1111089   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1148

The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan last month than it did on Iraq and Syria โ€“ a sign that the militaryโ€™s attention is shifting back towards the country it invaded in 2001 after focusing on Islamic State since 2014.

 

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UN report details shocking civilian death toll in Afghanistan

 

According to an Air Force report, American aircraft dropped 339 bombs in Afghanistan in March, compared to 294 in Iraq and Syria. In March of last year, US forces dropped 203 bombs on Afghanistan, and a whopping 3,878 on Iraq and Syria.

 

The lull in Syria and Iraq comes after Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) suffered major losses following Russian intervention in 2015, and US-led coalition bombings since 2014. Whereas the jihadists once controlled a vast swathe of land stretching from central Iraq to north-central Syria, its territory now is limited to a few isolated pockets of desert.