(Bloomberg) – According to the Wall Street Journal report, in interviews with the Afghan government to return military forces to the Bagram Air Base, the day after President Donald Trump tried to regain control of the facility.
The discussion with the Afghan Taliban government involves potentially the location of little military power that could head against terrorism, reported magazine, and quoted people who were familiar with interviews. According to the report, this presence could include aircraft or drones with a crew or drones that quoted an American official who characterized conversations as still in an early stage.
“By the way, we are trying to get it back,” Trump told reporters on Thursday during a UK press conference, where he met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Trump indicated that he believes that the US has a leverage effect to return the base.
Trump has long attacked his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, over a chaotic American departure from Afghanistan in 2021, who left the military facility in the hands of the Taliban government. Trump said the device still holds strategic value for the US.
“One of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it is an hour from where China produces its nuclear weapons. So a lot of things are happening, but I’m very disappointed that this one is not settled,” Trump said on Thursday.
Friday’s magazine report quoted interviews about the base in wider discussions with the Afghan government on normalization relations.
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