Trump Says America Is Trying To Reclaim Bagram Air Base Four Years After It Fell to the Taliban

The base in Afghanistan ‘is an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons,’ the president says in Britain.

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An American F-16 fighter jet taxis down a runway at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on September 5, 2017. Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images

Published: Sep 18, 2025, 11:51 AM ET
Updated:Sep 18, 2025, 01:19 PM ET

President Trump says the United States is trying to reclaim control of Bagram Air Base, just north of Kabul, Afghanistan, more than four years after it fell into the hands of the Taliban during the 2021 American pullout from the country.

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