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The closuredisclosures. there's a filing from "the washington post" today from freedom of information act on how much army commanders objected to some of the things the state department was doing in not evacuating sooner to the closing of bagram base too soon. what should the senate, your oversight committees do to make sure this kind of messy evacuation doesn't happen again? >> well, i think the first thing is to learn whatever lessons there are to be learned. i'm a little surprised about the bagram comment because i talked to senior military leaders at that time and i had said why are we clo...

Ten years ago. there's a $5 million reward for information that could lead to his capture. can you walk us through what the u.s./taliban relationship looks like right now? >> alicia, it is exactly as jonathan sketched out. it's a relationship of convenience. right now they have something of control over kabul and most of afghanistan although i say right now because that could change. and so the u.s. government is in a position to work with the people who have the most power and leverage on the ground which is, unfortunately, the taliban. we have really no choice. i will say, though, that they ...

United States to hand Bagram base to Afghan forces in 20 days, says official SECTIONS Last Updated: Jun 02, 2021, 05:16 PM IST Share Synopsis The vast base, built by the Soviets in the 1980s, is the biggest military facility used by US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, with tens of thousands of troops stationed there during the peak of America's military involvement in the violence-wracked country. Getty Images An American F-16 fighter jet taxis down a runway at Bagram Air Field on September 5, 2017 in Bagram, Afghanistan Related The US military will hand over its main Bagram Air Base to Afghan...

The US military will hand over its main Bagram Air Base to Afghan forces in about 20 days

On May 1, the US began a troop withdrawal. There are quite a few hopes attached with the troop withdrawal which it is hoped will bring about peace in Afghanistan. Since 2001, the US has been engaged...