Five rockets hit US air base in Afghanistan, no casualties reported in Daesh-claimed attack
Afghan security forces take position at the site of an attack on a US military air base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan on December 11, 2019.
The attack comes as the Afghan government has announced the release of Taliban prisoners from a jail near the Bagram base, as part of a confidence-building step in a US-Taliban peace deal aimed at ending about two decades of war in Afghanistan. Five rockets were fired at Bagram airfield early this morning. There were no casualties or injuries. OurThe rockets targeting the largest US military compound in Afghanistan were fired from a vehicle parked in an adjoining village.
The prisoner exchange deal provides for the government to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners, with the Taliban releasing 1,000 members of the Afghan security forces in exchange.
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