{"id":55701,"date":"2025-09-21T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-threatens-afghanistan-over-control-of-bagram-airbase\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:30:36","slug":"trump-threatens-afghanistan-over-control-of-bagram-airbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-threatens-afghanistan-over-control-of-bagram-airbase\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens Afghanistan over control of Bagram Airbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If Afghanistan doesn&#8217;t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!&#8221; the president wrote on his Truth Social account.<\/p>\n<p>Located about 50 km north of Kabul, the Bagram Airbase was the hub of U.S. and NATO operations during the two-decade-long War in Afghanistan. The withdrawal of American forces in 2021 resulted in the Taliban taking control of the base.<\/p>\n<p>During his recent visit to Britain, Trump said that the United States is &#8220;trying to take back&#8221; the Bagram Airbase. The remarks have attracted widespread attention and sparked speculation about whether the United States intends to redeploy troops to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Trump told reporters at the White House that the United States is in talks with Afghanistan regarding regaining control of the airbase, saying, &#8220;We want it back, and we want it back soon, right away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they don&#8217;t do it, you&#8217;re going to find out what I&#8217;m gonna do,&#8221; said Trump.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94860 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Sept. 20, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan with &quot;bad things&quot; if it doesn&#039;t &quot;give Bagram Airbase back.&quot; \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan with &#8220;bad things&#8221; if it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;give Bagram Airbase back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000094861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000094861,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2d84c458e17e422e837ddbe5196ca50e_1_logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55701"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55701"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}