This file photo taken on July 5 shows a general view of the runway tarmac inside the Bagram US air base after all US and Nato troops left. AFP
BAGRAM: The US left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.
Afghanistan’s army showed off the sprawling air base on Monday, providing a rare first glimpse of what had been the epicentre of Americas war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the Al Qaeda perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.
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Published: 03 Jul 2021 10:14 AM BdST
Updated: 03 Jul 2021 10:14 AM BdST FILE An American soldier on Nov 28, 2019, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. American troops and their Western allies have departed Bagram, Afghanistan’s largest air base, officials said on Friday, July 2, 2021, turning over to the Afghan government the sprawling outpost from which the United States waged war for nearly two decades. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
US troops and their Western allies have departed the US military base that coordinated the sprawling war in Afghanistan, officials said Friday, effectively ending major US military operations in the country after nearly two decades.
US leaves its epicentre of Afghan war
American forces hand over Bagram Airfield to Afghan govt
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July 03, 2021
KABUL:
US troops pulled out of the epicentre of their war in Afghanistan on Friday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they had buried there 20 years and bringing an effective end to America’s longest war in history.
The US handed over the Bagram Airfield to the Afghan National Security and Defence Force in its entirety, top American officials confirmed, as fears grow that the country might descend into a civil war after all the foreign forces leave the country.