Russia Concerned With Possibility Of US Taking Control Of Afghan Airbase, Says Putin’s Envoy

Moscow is apprehensive that the US could try to take control of a key Afghan Base amid its escalating military conflict with Iran, a senior Russian diplomat has said. Speaking in an interview with the government news agency RIA Novosti on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that the US demand for the Bagram airbase is not new. The Bagram airbase, located near the capital city, Kabul, was built in the 1950s by the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and was widely used by the Soviet forces during their intervention in Afghanistan,…