Given the large amount of equipment and money left behind in Afghanistan, one can safely assume some of this will eventually find its way to Africa and especially to those Islamist groups that have aligned themselves with Islamic State.
Taliban fighters stand guard along a road near the site of an Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Herat on August 19, 2021, amid the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan.
Having never been involved there, I cannot comment on the situation in that country, either prior to its collapse, or now. It is obvious the hasty US/Nato withdrawal was a geopolitical decision that ignored the intelligence predications and warnings.
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