KABUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Some 1,000 newly graduated Afghan army soldiers on Sunday joined the country's national army, according to an army officer.
"As many as 1,000 soldiers were commissioned to Afghan National Army (ANA) on Sunday morning. The newly graduates had received a three-month training at Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in eastern Kabul," Captain Barat Ali Rizae told Xinhua.
The newly graduates would be deployed to the countryside to provide security for their people, he said.
The latest graduation came as the Taliban militants have escalated operations over the past couple of months and fierce fighting has been continuing in parts of the country, including Kunduz, Farah and Helmand provinces.
The latest graduation will boost the capacity of the ANA and enable the security forces to further check subversive activities, Rizae noted.
Since January 2015, Afghan National Security and Defense Forces have assumed the full security charges from NATO and U.S. forces after the foreign troops switched mission from combat to support role, which focuses on training, advising and assisting Afghan forces.
