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Taliban deny US Bagram air base after Trump threat

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Banglapress Published: 23 September 2025, 10:26 AM
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Taliban deny US Bagram air base after Trump threat
  Bangla Press Desk:    Taliban government in Afghanistan on Sunday refused a deal over Bagram air base after US President Donald Trump’s threat. Fasihuddin Fitrat, chief of staff of Afghanistan's ministry of defence, said a deal over Bagram air base was "not possible", after the US president said he wanted the former US base back. Bagram, the largest air base in Afghanistan located north of the capital Kabul, was the centre of US operations in their 20 year-war against the Taliban. Trump on Saturday threatened "bad things" would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it.
"If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN," Trump said in a Truth Social post. Fasihuddin Fitrat said "some people" want to take back the base through a "political deal". "Recently, some people have said that they have entered negotiations with Afghanistan for taking back Bagram air base," he said in comments broadcast by local media. "A deal over even an inch of Afghanistan's soil is not possible. We don't need it."
Later in an official statement, the Afghan government said warned that "Afghanistan's independence and territorial integrity are of the utmost importance". Trump has repeatedly criticised the loss of the base, noting its proximity to China. But Thursday while on a state visit to Britain was the first time he publicly raised the idea of the United States retaking control of it. US and NATO troops chaotically pulled out of Bagram in July 2021, under Joe Biden's presidency but as part of a 2020 Trump-brokered deal with Taliban insurgents.
The loss of crucial air power saw the Afghan military collapse just weeks later and the Taliban sweep back to power. Trump was asked by reporters at the White House if he was considering sending US troops to retake Bagram. "We won't talk about that, but we're talking now to Afghanistan, and we want it back and we want it back soon, right away. And if they don't do it, you're going to find out what I'm going to do," he said. A massive, sprawling facility, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others have repeatedly raised allegations of systematic human rights abuses by US forces at Bagram, especially pertaining to detainees in Washington's murky "War on Terror". The original airfield was built with assistance from what was then the Soviet Union in the early 1950s, expanded with US help during the Cold War, and significantly developed further by Moscow during the decade-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
At the height of US control around 2010 it had grown to the size of a small town, with supermarkets and shops including outlets such as Dairy Queen and Burger King. It was visited by several US presidents including Barrack Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2019.  This article was originally published on Daily Sun. [Bangla Press is a global platform for free thought. It provides impartial news, analysis, and commentary for independent-minded individuals. Our goal is to bring about positive change, which is more important today than ever before.] BP/SP
[Bangla Press is a global platform for free thought. It provides impartial news, analysis, and commentary for independent-minded individuals. Our goal is to bring about positive change, which is more important today than ever before.]

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