The U.S. military estimates that it has pulled out more than 50 percent of its equipment and troops from Afghanistan. “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) estimates that we have completed greater than 50% of the entire retrograde process,” the command, which oversees operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, said in a press release on Tuesday. CENTCOM also said the U.S. Department of Defense had retrograded about approximately 500 C-17 planeloads of material from Afghanistan and had turned over more than 13,000 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency for disposition. In addition, six U.S. facilities have been handed over to the Afghan Ministry of Defense. On April 14, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. forces to leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, which marks the 20th anniversary of the most deadly terrorist attacks on American soil by terrorist group al-Qaeda, which openly operated in Afghanistan with the support of the …