The United States dropped 360 bombs on militants across Afghanistan during the month of February before signing a peace deal with the Taliban on its last day, US military data showed.
It’s the second highest total for February month since US Air Forces Central Command began tallying munitions releases over a decade ago.
The record number of munitions released during February happened in 2018 with 469 bombs dropped by American warplanes. 2011 and 2019 are the only two other years during the past decade where US aircraft dropped more than 300 munitions in February.
The US has dropped a total of 775 bombs in January and February of 2020.
The last two years have seen record air strikes, enemy initiated attacks and soaring violence as parties to the conflict jockey for leverage over negotiations.
American warplanes dropped more than 14,000 munitions between 2018 and 2019 as the US sought to pressure the Taliban to negotiate an end to the war.
Despite the deal which happened following a trial period of reduction in violence, Taliban are attacking Afghan forces at a high rate and days after the deal the US carried out an airstrike against the group in Helmand to defend Afghan forces under attack.
