Taliban soldiers inspected damaged aircraft and equipment at Kabul airport on Tuesday, after the last U.S. troops withdrew from a shattered Afghanistan.
US military helicopters with smashed windows and deflated tyres sat in the airport hangers and damaged equipment was seen strewn across the tarmac.
U.S. troops destroyed more than 70 aircraft and dozens of armoured vehicles before they left and disabled air defences that had thwarted an attempted Islamic State rocket attack on the eve of their departure.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. military was not concerned with images of Taliban members walking through Kabul airport holding weapons and sizing up U.S. helicopters, telling CNN they could inspect all they wanted but could not fly them.
The Islamist militants now control more territory than when they last ruled before they were driven out in America's longest war which took the lives of nearly 2,500 U.S. troops and an estimated 240,000 Afghans, and cost some $2 trillion.
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