Exiting Bagram Humiliation for the United States after 20 years of presence.
“The United States invested a lot of lives and property in this war, but it achieved nothing but humiliation,” France 24 reported, referring to the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Bagram Air Base after 20 years of occupation.
As Washington announces it will end its withdrawal by the end of August, officials said on Saturday that hundreds of Taliban fighters had been killed in heavy fighting with government forces in several Afghan provinces.
The Washington statement came after the evacuation of Bagram Air Base by US and NATO forces; The same base where coalition forces led operations for two decades against the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies.
In fact, the United States, which, 20 years after the military occupation of Afghanistan, waged the longest US war, killed thousands of US and NATO troops, and cost the American people billions of dollars; It is leaving Afghanistan in a state of greater insecurity and instability than ever before.
However, a Taliban spokesman, in response to the withdrawal of US troops from Bagram, described it as a good step and stressed that he wants all foreign troops to leave Afghanistan because, with the complete withdrawal of foreign troops, Afghans can move closer to peace and security.
“Bagram is the most strategic base in Afghanistan,” Ashraf Afzal, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nottingham, told AFP. The base was built by the former Soviet Union for the occupying forces in Afghanistan. “Therefore, the issue of the withdrawal of American troops and the coalition is the most important military withdrawal and is very symbolic.”
Bagram Air Base north of Kabul has been in the hands of US and NATO forces for 20 years since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan began and was seen as part of US territory where high-ranking US officials such as presidents without coordination with the Afghan government They came and went.
