NISHANK MOTWANI writes for The Interpreter: Bagram airbase, the nerve centre of US and allied forces operations in Afghanistan, turned into a ghost town over the American Independence Day 4 July weekend. Reports indicate that US forces left in the dead of night on 2 July without informing their Afghan counterparts.
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Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on 1 July 2021, just before it was abandoned by US forces (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)