{"id":117178,"date":"2021-07-08T13:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=117178"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:47:28","slug":"us-troops-quietly-left-bagram-air-base-without-notifying-afghan-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/us-troops-quietly-left-bagram-air-base-without-notifying-afghan-command\/","title":{"rendered":"US troops quietly left Bagram Air Base without notifying Afghan command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently Bagram Air Base was in news. Where is it located?<\/strong><br>(a) India<br>(b) Pakistan<br>(c) United States of America<br>(d) Afghanistan<br><strong>Answer: (d)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bagram Airfield-BAF also known as Bagram Air Base was the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan.<\/li><li>It is located next to the ancient city of Bagram, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan<\/li><li>The Bagram base is key to the security of the Afghan capital.<\/li><li>Kohistani insists his troops can hold the base from the Taliban and that he has &#8220;quite enough&#8221; soldiers.<\/li><li>But with roughly 3,000 troops under his command, the figure is a tiny percentage of the number<\/li><li>Bagram ultimately fell into the Taliban&#8217;s hands after they overran large swaths of the country in the mid-1990s.<\/li><li>Following the September 11 attacks and the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Americans took control of the base and used it as the launching pad for air strikes against the Taliban and to protect Afghan force.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY: AMIT GUPTA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/asia-pacific\/20210706-us-troops-quietly-left-bagram-air-base-without-notifying-afghan-commander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/asia-pacific\/20210706-us-troops-quietly-left-bagram-air-base-without-notifying-afghan-commander<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently Bagram Air Base was in news. Where is it located?(a) India(b) Pakistan(c) United States of America(d) AfghanistanAnswer: (d)Related Facts: Bagram Airfield-BAF also known as Bagram Air Base was the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. It is located next to the ancient city of Bagram, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southeast of Charikar in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-117178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117180,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117178\/revisions\/117180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}