4 hours agoAfghan General: When we woke up this morning, we saw that Americans had left Bagram without warning us.
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The U.S. Army left Bagramai's airfield key bases in Afghanistan in the middle of the night without even warning Afghans, the new base commander said. General Assad Kohistan told the BBC that Americans left Bagram at 3am Friday morning, and that the Afghan army [...]
General Assad Kohistan told the BBC that the Americans left Bagram at 3: 00 a.m. Friday, and that the Afghan army found out only hours later that they woke up in the morning.
Bagram also holds a prison, and reportedly there were 5,000 Taliban prisoners, reports the BBC, translates Periscopi.
The Taliban have advanced to Afghanistan to the point of full retreat.
General Kohistan said Afghans were waiting for the Taliban to attack Bagram as well.
Speaking to reporters at the air base, he said he was receiving reports that they were making “movement in rural areas” in the vicinity.
You know, if we compare with Americans, there's a huge difference,” he said.
Kohistan has only 3,000 troops under his command, or much less than tens of thousands, than America.
About a thousand Afghan soldiers fighting the Taliban in the north of the country have fled out of the border to Tajikistan on Monday. /Periscope
