Afghan military officials told The Associated Press that the U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield in the middle of the night without notifying its new commander. U.S. forces reportedly left the site, from which they have fought the war in Afghanistan for the past 20 years, and shut off the electricity on Friday. Afghan officials did not discover the departure until more than two hours later, the AP reported. “We [heard] some rumor that the Americans had left Bagram ... and finally by seven o’clock in the morning, we understood that it was confirmed that they had already left Bagram,” Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram's new commander, said, according to the news service. “At first we thought maybe they were Taliban,” Abdul Raouf, a soldier of 10 years, told the AP.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 06, 2021 11:26 UTC