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The Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed today that the US military has officially handed it over to Bagram base after the withdrawal of all US and foreign forces from it.
"The US and coalition forces have completely withdrawn from the base, and therefore the Afghan army will protect it and use it to fight terrorism," the ministry's spokesman, Fouad Aman, was quoted by AFP as saying in a tweet on Twitter.
And two US military officials announced earlier today that the US forces had completely evacuated Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Observers believe that the decision to withdraw the US came in the wake of Washington's failure to achieve its plans in Afghanistan, twenty years after the invasion of this country. This was confirmed by Stephen Werthem, deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Government, a think tank in Washington, telling "Today World View" magazine, "After On September 11, the United States set out to try to prove that it was the indispensable nation in the world, while Afghanistan proved to be the graveyard of these American claims.