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 ...

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 Taliban dismissed Donald Trump's claim of Chinese presence at one of the former American military bases in Afghanistan. The US president claimed Washington was planning to return to the Bagram ...

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

US President Donald Trump has once again said that if he had remained the president, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan would have been kept due to its proximity to China. In his speech on Friday at the ...

Originally built in the 1950's, the Bagram Air Field in the Parwan province of Afghanistan served as an important base for the US first during the Cold War and later during the 1980's Soviet war ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a background, Bagram Airbase ... as the “badly handled” military withdrawal. “We were going to get out, but we were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of ...

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“I’m the one who got our military presence to under 5,000 but we were going to keep Bagram,” Mr Trump said, “not because of Afghanistan but because of China, because the air base is ...