DOD Buzz: War in Afghanistan Heats Up as Fight Against ISIS Winds Down
Another telling sign that the wars against ISIS in Iraq and Syria were winding down and entering the counter-insurgency phase recently came from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Army Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and the NATO Resolute Support mission, said that he had used a B-52 bomber and an F-22 Raptor advanced fighter normally assigned to the Iraq/Syria theaters to bomb suspected drug havens in Afghanistan.
The use of the B-52, flying out of Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, and the F-22, flying out of Al Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, showed that “Things have gone well in Iraq and Syria,” Nicholson said last Monday in a video briefing from Kabul to the Pentagon.
“So we’re beginning to see the effects of a shift of resources” from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan, Nicholson said. The shift “will increase over the course of the winter, going into the spring, as the situation continues to improve there” in Iraq and Syria.
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