The Taliban dismissed Donald Trump's claim of Chinese presence at one of the former American military bases in Afghanistan.

Trump claimed during his election campaign speeches that Bagram was under the control of China’s People’s Liberation Army, and he reiterated it before his first Cabinet meeting last Wednesday ...

The US president says Bagram Air Base is a critical asset for countering China, as experts debate the feasibility of reclaiming abandoned US military equipment in Afghanistan. A Taliban soldier ...

Donald Trump has made a new announcement with regard to Afghanistan - that the US is ... talking about armoured vehicles and the strategic Bagram Airbase.

He also asserted the U.S. should have kept control of Bagram Air Base, once the largest American military base in Afghanistan now controlled by the Taliban. Trump claimed that China’s People’s ...

On 1 March 2025, after his first Cabinet meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump said the Taliban should return the equipment ...

kept control of Bagram Air Base, a large airfield in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. He claimed that China’s People’s Liberation Army has taken control of the former U.S. base ...

It has served as a major base and central command during the US campaign in Afghanistan ... handled” military withdrawal. “We were going to get out, but we were going to keep Bagram, not ...

A spokesperson of the Afghan Taliban government rejected US President Donald Trump's claims about Chinese presence at Bagram ... Afghanistan would be contingent upon the return of US military ...

Donald Trump has made a new announcement with regard to Afghanistan - that the US is planning to go back. "Joe Biden gave it up...I think we should get it back", he said, talking about armoured ...

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