Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase: Why is Trump desperate to take it back? | Donald Trump News

United States President Donald Trump has demanded that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban hand the country’s Bagram airbase over to Washington, five years after he signed a deal with the group that paved the way for the US withdrawal from Kabul.

At a news conference with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer on September 18, Trump told reporters that the US government was “trying to get [Bagram] back”.

“We gave it to [the Taliban] for nothing. We want that base back,” he said.

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