Afghan National Army soldiers stand guard at a check point near the Bagram Airbase north of Kabul, Afghanistan April 2, 2020. — Reuters pic
The attack comes as the Afghan government has launched 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. The 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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