The US departed from the Bagram airfield in Afghanistan quietly at night without notifying the new commander, who discovered the exit two hours after the US left, say Afghan military officials.
The United States Department of Defence announced Friday that they had completely vacated their biggest airfield in Bagram, Afghanistan, before a complete withdrawal scheduled for August this year.
This airfield in Bagram was the American epicentre in the fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
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The airfield faced a blackout 20 minutes after the American troops departed, ABC News reported. This allowed looters to ransack the buildings, taking anything up for grabs.
“We (heard) some rumor that the Americans had left Bagram … finally by seven o’clock in the morning, it was confirmed that they had already left Bagram,” said Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram’s new commander.
