{"id":171708,"date":"2025-09-21T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171708\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:40:09","slug":"the-taliban-reject-trumps-bid-to-retake-bagram-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171708\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban reject Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base"},"content":{"rendered":"

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) \u2014 The Taliban government on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to retake Bagram Air Base<\/a>, four years after America\u2019s chaotic withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan left the sprawling military facility<\/a> in the Taliban hands.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what conversations the U.S. has had with Afghan officials about returning to the country. But Trump hinted that the Taliban, who have struggled with an economic crisis<\/a>, international legitimacy, internal rifts and rival militant groups since their return to power<\/a> in 2021, could be open to allowing the U.S. military back. <\/p>\n

The chief Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, rejected Trump\u2019s assertions and urged the U.S. to adopt a policy of \u201crealism and rationality.\u201d Afghanistan had an economy-oriented foreign policy and sought constructive relations with all states on the basis of mutual and shared interests, Mujahid posted on X.<\/p>\n

It had been consistently communicated to the U.S. in all bilateral negotiations that Afghanistan\u2019s independence and territorial integrity were of the utmost importance, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be recalled that, under the Doha Agreement, the United States pledged that \u2018it will not use or threaten force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Afghanistan, nor interfere in its internal affairs,\u2019\u201d he said. The U.S. needed to remain faithful to its commitments, he added.<\/p>\n

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Mujahid did not reply to questions from The Associated Press about conversations with the Trump administration regarding Bagram and why Trump believed the U.S. could retake it. <\/p>\n

In August last year, the Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of their takeover at Bagram with a grand military display<\/a> of abandoned U.S. hardware, catching the eye of the White House. Trump has repeatedly criticized his predecessor, Joe Biden, for his \u201cgross incompetence\u201d during the withdrawal of U.S. forces after the country\u2019s longest war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) \u2014 The Taliban government on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s bid to retake Bagram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10908,23,12,793,46718,3319,1576,3,111,42450,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,800,965,102765],"class_list":["post-171708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-afghanistan","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-islam","tag-joe-biden","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-taliban","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news","tag-zabihullah-mujahid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}