US forces hand over Bagram airbase to Afghanistan
Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul
The US military has vacated its biggest airbase in Afghanistan as part of a final withdrawal from the war-torn country to be completed by the next months.
Bagram military ai base in northern Parwan province was known as an American town since it was considered as the biggest US military base in Afghanistan. Now, no American troop is in Bagram and it has been handed over to the Afghan government.
Both, the Afghan government and the Taliban have welcomed the move. However, the militant group says the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase is a hasty escape under rising Taliban attacks across the country.
Meanwhile, many Afghans say the withdrawal needs to be viewed as a chance to remove violence from the country.
Afghan officials have always blamed the Taliban for waging war under the pretext of fighting foreign invasion. And now they call on the Taliban to logically decide on the fate of their own war torn homeland .
Some 9,600 foreign troops should leave Afghanistan by September 11, a deadline set by US president Joe Biden who seeks to end America’s longest war. It was launched in 2001 under the pretext of fighting terrorism. However, no peace has been achieved yet and thousands of Afghans have lost their lives since then.
Afghan officials say government forces are fully ready to independently defend the country amid Withdrawal of foreign troops.
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