US left Bagram late at night without telling the new commander. Afghan authorities,

BAGRAM: According to Afghan military authorities, the US left the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan discreetly at night without informing the new commander, who discovered the withdrawal two hours after the US withdrew.

The US Department of Defense said on Friday that its largest airfield at Bagram, Afghanistan, has been entirely abandoned ahead of a planned complete pullout in August of this year.

The American epicentre in the war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda was this airport in Bagram.

According to ABC News, the airstrip went dark 20 minutes after the American forces left. This allowed looters to ransack the buildings and take everything they wanted.

General Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram’s new commander, claimed, “We (heard) some report that the Americans had departed Bagram… eventually, by seven o’clock in the morning, it was established that they had already left Bagram.”

Many Afghan troops feel abandoned as a result of America’s leaving 20 years later without telling Afghan authority.

Military spokespeople for the United States made no comment on the quick and stealthy departure from Bagram Airfield.

However, US military spokesman Col Sonny Leggett stated last week that since President Joe Biden’s declaration of the US pullout from Afghanistan, numerous Afghan outposts had been handed over. The withdrawal was also planned with Afghan leaders, according to the statement.

The Taliban have increased their operations in Afghanistan, and they now control numerous areas in the north. The Taliban’s activities has increased as NATO and US forces leave Afghanistan. The majority of US troops have already departed, and the remainder will leave after a protection arrangement with Turkey is finalised for Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport.