US B-52 Drops Record Number Of Bombs On Taliban

A US Air Force B-52 bomber has dropped a record number of precision guided bombs on Taliban over the past 24 hours in the north of Afghanistan, the US Forces-Afghanistan said in a statement Tuesday.

The bombing was part of a 96-hour air campaign that struck training facilities and sources of revenue like narcotics. The strikes also aimed at stolen Afghan National Army vehicles "being converted to vehicle-borne" improvised explosive devices, the statement read, as quoted by Fox News.

“The Taliban have nowhere to hide,” Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of US Forces and Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, said.

“There will be no safe haven for any terrorist group bent on bringing harm and destruction to this country,” he said.

The B-52, which was recently reconfigured with a "conventional rotary," dropped 24 guided munitions, the report said.

This comes as a report published on Fox News shows that the US military is redeploying its forces from Iraq to Afghanistan.

The report said that western contractors at a base say US troops began the drawdown over the past week, with groups of soldiers leaving the base on daily flights.

However, the exact scale of the redeployment was unclear.

According to various estimates, as of 2016, there were more 5,000 US military personnel stationed in Iraq, with nearly 4,000 deployed to support and assist local groups fighting Daesh militants. The remaining personnel included special operations forces, logistical workers and troops on temporary rotations, the BBC reported.