Donald Trump has said he is negotiating with the Taliban to retake control of Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, a development that would take huge American military resources to sustain and represent a stunning turnaround from the Islamist group.
The US president was speaking at a press conference alongside Sir Keir Starmer at the end of his state visit to the UK when, during a question about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he gave the “little breaking news” update as an aside.
