US LARGEST MILITARY BASE IN AFGHANISTAN TO BE HANDED OVER TO AFGHAN FORCES

Tue 01 June 2021:

The United States’ largest military base in Afghanistan, the Bagram air base, will be handed over to the Afghan security forces, Afghan broadcaster 1TV reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed US military spokesman.

The US presidential administration pledged to finish the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11. According to media reports, some US bases, helicopters, military vehicles and weapons will be handed over to the Afghan army.

Last month the Pentagon’s Central Command said the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is between 13 percent and 20 percent complete, as it pushes to beat a September deadline for the pullout.

CentCom said that since President Joe Biden ordered the exit in April, it had removed the equivalent of 115 fully loaded C-17 cargo aircraft worth of material from the country, while consigning more than 5,000 pieces of equipment to a Pentagon agency for destruction.

CentCom has also turned over five facilities to the Afghan Defense Ministry, including Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan, once the second largest military base in the country for US forces.

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