Taliban Breach Walls at American Airfield Days After Afghan Peace Talks Restart – By James LaPorta (Newsweek) / Dec 11 2019
Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, was targeted by what Pentagon officials described as a suicide bomb on Wednesday, followed by several Taliban militants breaching the walls at the American base, Newsweek has learned.
The attack comes as talks resumed this weekend between the United States and Taliban negotiators some three months after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a secret meeting at Camp David to broker a deal to end America’s longest war.
A senior Defense Department official confirmed to Newsweek that the American military base in Afghanistan had been attacked by a suicide bombing but was unable to provide any further details.
The Associated Press first reported the news late Tuesday evening that an American convoy had been targeted. It was not immediately clear if a U.S. military convoy was involved.
General Mahfooz Walizada, the police commander of northern Parwan province where the attack occurred, told the Associated Press that the explosion destroyed several homes.
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