*KABUL – A US Air Force B-52 bomber has dropped a record number ofprecision guided bombs on Taliban over the past 24 hours in the north ofAfghanistan, the US Forces-Afghanistan said in a statement Tuesday.*

The bombing was part of a 96-hour air campaign that struck trainingfacilities and sources of revenue like narcotics. The strikes also aimed atstolen Afghan National Army vehicles “being converted to vehicle-borne”improvised explosive devices, the statement read, as quoted by Fox News.

“The Taliban have nowhere to hide,” Gen. John Nicholson, the commander ofUS Forces and Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, said.

“There will be no safe haven for any terrorist group bent on bringing harmand destruction to this country,” he said.

The B-52, which was recently reconfigured with a “conventional rotary,”dropped 24 guided munitions, the report said.

At a gathering on Tuesday, President Ashraf Ghani pointed to the first airraid against the Taliban in Badakhshan province. He said pressure onTaliban in the north will be increased.

“My second message to the north of Afghanistan particularly to Sar-e-Pul,Jawzjan and Faryab provinces is that large-scale (military) operations willkick off,” Ghani said. “You witnessed yesterday that terrorist sanctuariesin Badakhshan province were targeted by intense air raids. Such attack willbe conducted in Jawzjan, Maimana and Sar-e-Pul when the weather allows. Thepreparations have been taken.”

This comes as a report published on Fox News shows that the US military isredeploying its forces from Iraq to Afghanistan.

The report said that western contractors at a base say US troops began thedrawdown over the past week, with groups of soldiers leaving the base ondaily flights.

However, the exact scale of the redeployment was unclear.

According to various estimates, as of 2016, there were more 5,000 USmilitary personnel stationed in Iraq, with nearly 4,000 deployed to supportand assist local groups fighting Daesh militants. The remaining personnelincluded special operations forces, logistical workers and troops ontemporary rotations, the BBC reported.