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President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan, which is ruled by the Taliban, if Bagram Air Base isn’t returned to the USA.
“If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase again to people who constructed it, the USA of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!” he wrote on Reality Social.
The president didn’t elaborate on what penalties the nation may face.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home for remark.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday made a risk towards Afghanistan if Bagram Airbase isn’t returned to the USA. (Neil Corridor/EPA/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
On Thursday, the president stated the administration is “attempting” to get the previous U.S. Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan “again” from the Taliban.
In remarks to the press whereas standing alongside U.Ok. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the president criticized the dealing with of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan underneath President Joe Biden and stated he had “a bit breaking information.”
“We’re attempting to get it again,” Trump stated. “We’re attempting to get it again as a result of they want issues from us.”
Trump didn’t increase on whom he was referring to or, if referring to the Taliban, the terrorist group that took over the nation in 2021, what they “want” from the U.S.
“We wish that base again, however one of many causes we wish the bottom is, as , it is an hour away from the place China makes its nuclear weapons,” Trump added.
On Saturday night, Trump informed reporters the administration needs Bagram again “instantly,” and “if they do not do it, you are going to discover out what I’ll do.”
Taliban helicopters land on the Bagram Air Base, in Bagram, Parwan province in Afghanistan in 2024. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The Taliban took over the nation after the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021.
The U.S. claimed Bagram Air Base, which was constructed by the Soviets within the Nineteen Fifties, in 2001 when the navy went into Afghanistan following the 9/11 assaults.
In 2021, when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, it secretly left the bottom in the course of the evening on July 1, leaving it to the Afghan authorities.
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The Taliban captured the bottom six weeks later in August of 2021, on the identical day Kabul fell.
Earlier this 12 months, White Home hostage envoy Adam Boehler met with Taliban officers in Kabul whereas working to get hostage George Glezmann launched, the primary direct assembly for the reason that pullout in 2021.
U.S. troopers board a Air Drive airplane on the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Boehler, together with one other U.S. envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with the Taliban’s overseas minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, and reportedly mentioned methods to “develop bilateral relations between the 2 nations, points associated to residents, and funding alternatives in Afghanistan,” in accordance with a Taliban assertion.
The removing of U.S. troops from Afghanistan started through the first Trump administration in March 2020, and open-source intelligence confirmed that the Taliban had been making beneficial properties throughout Afghanistan within the 12 months main as much as the August 2021 withdrawal.
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Underneath the deal cast by the primary Trump administration, the U.S. agreed to withdraw all U.S. forces by Might 1, 2021, however Biden prolonged the withdrawal date to August 2021.
Fox Information’ Caitlin McFall and Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.
