DHAKA -The United States looks poised to return to the very theatre it once abandoned: Bagram. What Washington calls a tactical correction could quickly become a strategic rupture for South Asia. A ...
For two decades, Bagram Airfield was the nerve center of the U.S.-led counterterrorism campaign across Afghanistan and the main hub for Special Operations troops. But as U.S. forces were withdrawing ...
I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...
The president’s stated intentions to take over Bagram Air Base risk a departure from the détente of recent years. The Afghan National Army after US forces left Bagram airfield in the north of Kabul, ...
The Taliban will need American help to end a conflict that would surely destroy their hold on power. There is only one thing they could offer America in return. A bizarre conflict has erupted in the ...
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ricky Bryant is last in line to board a C-130H2 Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, for a flight to Forward Operations Base Salearno, Afghanistan, on March 8, ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's regional neighbors, including American allies, appeared to unite against President Donald Trump's stated aim of taking over the Bagram military base near Kabul, ...
Russia warned Tuesday that it would consider any new foreign military presence in Afghanistan or nearby countries “categorically unacceptable,” delivering the message during a high-level meeting in ...
In the end, the question that matters is not whether Bagram is valuable. It is. The right question is who President Trump should partner with to gain control over it. President Donald Trump has long ...
When President Trump announced during a press conference in London that he was in the process of trying to regain access to Bagram Air Base, it came as a surprise for some — especially judging by the ...
Trump demanded the Taliban return Bagram Airfield to U.S. control, citing concerns over possible Chinese use of the base, but the Taliban firmly rejected the request. Regional powers—including Russia, ...
President Donald Trump made the shocking announcement this month that the U.S. is "trying" to take back Bagram Airfield from the Taliban in Afghanistan after abandoning it more than four years ago.