“A deal about even one centimeter of Afghan soil is not possible,” said the chief of staff of the Afghan Ministry of Defense on Sunday, Fasihuddin Fitrat. “Some recently said they had negotiated with Afghanistan on the reconquest of the Bagram air force base,” he said, according to Afghan media. But there will be no deal. “We don’t need it.”
Later in an official statement by the Taliban government, it was said that “independence and territorial integrity of Afghanistan are of the greatest importance”.
On Thursday on Thursday, Trump first mentioned publicly on Thursday that his government wants to have Bagram, which was abandoned in 2021, abandoned in 2021. “We want to go back this base,” he said at a press conference with the British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer. As one of the reasons why the United States wanted the base back, he called “it is an hour away from the place where China produces its nuclear weapons”.
Trump had repeatedly criticized the task of the base in 2021 since returning to the White House, especially in connection with his general criticism of the US troop deduction from Afghanistan under his predecessor Joe Biden. Trump also complained about the growing influence of China in Afghanistan.
When Trump was asked at the White House of Journalists on Saturday whether he was considering sending US soldiers to recapture Bagram to Afghanistan: “We will not talk about that, but we are talking to Afghanistan now and we want to go back, soon, immediately. And if you don’t do it, you will find out what I will do.” However, the US President did not comment more specifically.
Bagram is the largest air force base in Afghanistan, and is about 40 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. After the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the USA and the subsequent invasion of an international coalition in Afghanistan listed by Washington, the base served the USA and NATO as the basis for its fight against Taliban for two decades.
In 2021, the western troops left the country in a partly chaotic deduction. In August 2024, the Taliban in Bagram held a military parade on the third anniversary of their takeover, and diplomats from China and Iran took part in it.
After years of western military presence, the Taliban had recaptured power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and proclaimed a so -called Islamic Emirate. Since then, they have enforced their strict interpretation of Islam with draconian laws and in particular criminal the rights of women.
