{"id":592,"date":"2025-09-19T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:48:38","slug":"taliban-officials-reject-trump-bagram-airfield-return-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/taliban-officials-reject-trump-bagram-airfield-return-suggestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban officials reject Trump Bagram Airfield return suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taliban officials rejected President Trump\u2019s suggestion that Bagram Airfield near Kabul could return<\/a> to U.S. control after it was abandoned during the withdrawal of troops<\/a> from Afghanistan under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The Taliban indicated it is willing to talk with the Trump administration about the air base \u2014 which was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s \u2014 but said no U.S. service members would be permitted.<\/p>\n

Zakir Jalaly, an official at the Taliban Foreign Ministry, said Thursday<\/a> that the U.S. and Afghanistan can have economic and political relations based on \u201cmutual respect and shared interests,\u201d but the U.S. will not be allowed to have a military presence in the country. <\/p>\n

Muhajir Farahi, the deputy minister of information and culture in Afghanistan, shared a part of a poem on social platform X, which in part said<\/a> that those who \u201conce smashed their heads against the rocks with us, their minds have still not found peace.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump, during a press conference<\/a> early Thursday in the United Kingdom<\/a> alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said the U.S. \u201cgave\u201d the base to the Taliban \u201cfor nothing.\u201d  <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get it back, by the way,” the president said<\/a>. “That could be a little breaking news: We\u2019re trying to get it back, because they need things from us.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want that base back, but one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it\u2019s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The president did not disclose other details on plans to recover the air base.<\/p>\n

The base fell to the Taliban after the chaotic 2021 withdrawal<\/a> of the U.S. forces from Afghanistan during the Biden administration. It was the biggest U.S. military base in the country. <\/p>\n

The president said in February<\/a> that the U.S. should have kept the base under its purview and alleged that China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army took control of it, something Beijing and the Taliban have denied. <\/p>\n

U.S. officials have recently engaged with officials in Kabul over Americans who are held in Afghanistan. Trump\u2019s special hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Zalmay Khalilzad, ex-U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, had a meeting<\/a> with the Taliban\u2019s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

Trump has often criticized the August 2021 withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan, where 13 U.S. service members were killed<\/a> by a suicide bombing at Kabul\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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