President Donald Trump said that the Bagram air base should not have been abandoned to the TalibanUS President Donald Trump has said he wants to regain control of the former Bagram air base in northeastern Afghanistan, which was hastily abandoned during the Taliban takeover four years ago. "We should have never given it up," Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Friday. He added that during his trip to the UK the previous day, the US was negotiating the issue with the new Afghan government. Photos and videos of the looted base and abandoned military equipment became symbols of the failure of the US war in Afghanistan. Zakir Jalaly, an Afghan Foreign Ministry official, wrote on X on Thursday that the people of Afghanistan would reject the return of American troops.