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Afghanistan Vows to Overcome Taliban Advances Amid US Withdrawal
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 6, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan’s national security chief said Tuesday that “teething problems” stemming from the withdrawal of U.S.-led foreign troops were behind recent rapid Taliban territorial gains and his government was working to overcome them. U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered all American soldiers to leave the war-torn South
Pentagon Says Handover Of Bagram Airfield Was ‘Key Milestone’ In U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 3, 2021 The Pentagon says the turnover of Bagram Airfield to Afghan security forces was a “key milestone” in the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, but insisted the U.S. military still has the authority to protect Afghan forces. The comments from Defense Department spokesman John Kirby on July 2
US Hands Control of Bagram Airfield to Afghan National Security Forces
Carla Babb VOA News July 2, 2021 U.S. forces have left Bagram Airfield, the main American base in Afghanistan, and handed control over to Afghan National Security Forces, a U.S. defense official confirmed to VOA. For nearly two decades the base, 60 kilometers north of Kabul, served as the center of the U.S. fight to
Afghanistan Reels From Economic Fallout Of International Troop Withdrawal
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Afghanistan May 1, 2021 Amin Agha worked as a manual laborer for eight years at Bagram Airfield, the U.S. military’s largest base in Afghanistan. But as the United States begins its final troop withdrawal from the country, Agha is among hundreds of Afghans who have recently lost their jobs at the
Bomb Blasts Kill Two In Afghanistan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 27, 2021 Afghan officials say at least two people have been killed and several others wounded in separate bomb blasts in the country. Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said on February 27 that one person was killed and two others injured when a bomb attached to a vehicle went off
No Casualties In Rocket Attack On Largest U.S. Afghan Base
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 9, 2020 Several rockets have been fired at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. Five rockets were fired at the Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul, early on April 9, causing “no casualties or injuries,” the mission said on Twitter. An
One Killed, 80 Wounded in Taliban Attack Near US Base in Afghanistan
By Ayaz Gul VOA News December 11, 2019 ISLAMABAD – A powerful bomb-and-gun attack on the largest American military base in Afghanistan early Wednesday killed at least one person and wounded more than 80 others, mostly civilians. Afghan military authorities said a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle in front of the gate of an
Three U.S. Soldiers, One American Contractor Killed In Afghanistan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 9, 2019 Three U.S. service members and an American contractor have been killed in a roadside bombing near the main NATO air base in Afghanistan, U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on April 8. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement on
What happened to prisoners at Bagram, ‘Afghanistan’s Guantanamo’?
Al Jazeera: Before there was Guantanamo, there was Bagram, a US detention site near its giant airbase in Afghanistan, which came to be synonymous with torture and prisoner abuse. But when the US relinquished control of the prison, now called Parwan Detention Facility, to Afghan security forces in December 2014, Washington renounced responsibility for the men once held there. “The Bagram prison was a melting pot