President Donald Trump said that the Bagram airfield should not have been abandoned to the Taliban
US President Donald Trump has said he wants to regain control of Bagram Air Base in northeastern Afghanistan.
American troops hastily evacuated the base in July 2021, a month before Taliban militants seized Kabul, toppling the UN-backed government and ending the 20-year US occupation of the country.
“We should have never given it up,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Friday. He added that during his trip to the UK the previous day, the US was negotiating the issue with the new Afghan government. “We want that base back,” he said.
“One of…
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