Vehicles, airline equipment and bunkers at Bagram air base after all foreign troops left and the Afghan National Army takes over.
Built by the Soviets in the 1980s, the base was the biggest military facility used by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan
📸Wakil Kohsar / Zakeria Hashimi
Contested Afghanistan.
#AFPgraphics map showing parts of Afghanistan currently under government control and territories under the influence of the Taliban
Afghanistan: two decades of US intervention.
#AFPgraphics charts US troop deployment and death tolls in Afghanistan since 2001
After American troops withdrew without notifying them, Afghan soldiers guarding Bagram Air Base have been left with thousands of Taliban prisoners and a certainty that the enemy will attack
With the United States military presence in Afghanistan effectively over, the country faces an uncertain future with Taliban attacks rampant and the threat of civil war looming
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