Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 195
Shake Up
President Trump suggested that he is working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from the country left the base in the Taliban’s hands, the AP reports.
Times of London: Taliban tell Trump: We’ll never hand Bagram airbase back to U.S.
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