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President Donald Trump On Saturday, if Bagram Air Base does not return to the United States, threatening Afghanistan, under the jurisdiction of the Taliban, is threatened.
“If Afghanistan does not return the Bagram Air Force Base to the people who built it, that is, the United States of America, then bad things will happen!!!” He wrote about the social networking of truth.
The president did not elaborate on the possible consequences of the country.
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President Donald Trump posed a threat to Afghanistan on Saturday if Bagram Air Base does not return to the United States. (Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The president said Thursday that the government is “working” to get “back to Afghanistan” from the Taliban’s former US Bagram airport.
While standing with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the president criticized the handling of U.S. withdrawal Afghanistan Under President Joe Biden, he said he “has some breaking news.”
“We’re trying to get it back,” Trump said. “We’re trying to get it back because they need our stuff.”
Trump hasn’t expanded what he’s referring to, or, if it’s the Taliban, it’s the terrorist group that took over the country in 2021, who “need” from the United States
“We want the base to come back, but one of the reasons we want the base is an hour away from China’s nuclear weapons,” Trump added.
On Saturday night, Trump told reporters that the administration wants Bagram to go back “just” and “if they don’t, you’ll find out what I’m going to do.”
Taliban helicopters landed at Bagram Air Force Base in Bagram in Palwan Province, Afghanistan in 2024. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images)
The Taliban took over the country after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
The United States claims that the Bagram Air Force Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s and the military entered Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
In 2021, when the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, it secretly left the base in the middle of July 1, leaving it to the Afghan government.
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The Taliban occupied the base six weeks after August 2021 and Kapur fell.
Earlier this year, the White House hostage envoy Adam Boehler Meeting with Taliban officials while working to get hostages George Glezmann to release the hostages, the first direct meeting since Larat in 2021.
U.S. soldiers boarded an Air Force plane at an airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
According to a statement from the Taliban, Borle met with another U.S. envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, with Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, and reportedly discussed the approach to “building bilateral relations between the two countries, issues related to citizens and investment opportunities in Afghanistan”.
During the first Trump administration in March 2020, the evacuation of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, open source intelligence shows that The Taliban has been making profits Before the evacuation in August 2021, the entire Afghanistan was held.
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According to the deal reached by the first Trump administration, the United States agreed to withdraw all U.S. troops by May 1, 2021, but Biden extended the withdrawal date to August 2021.
Caitlin McFall and Lucas Tomlinson of Fox News contributed to the report.
