The United States uses the Manas air base, set up in December 2001, to support military operations in Afghanistan. About 1,000 troops from the United States, Spain and France are stationed there.

Since the U.S. Air Force arrived at Manas in late 2001, the base has been converted from a crumbling and abandoned Soviet-era military facility into a garrison complete with an indoor basketball ...

Winning in Afghanistan is a vital U.S. national interest, and since 2001, Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan has been critical to this effort. Manas moves some 500 tons of cargo and 15,000 people per ...

At this stage, only confusion surrounds the fate of the US air base in Kyrgyzstan. Government officials, MPs and opposition politicians keep producing a cascade of contradictory statements. Amid the ...

Once Kyrgyzstan succumbed to Russian pressure and unceremoniously evicted the United States from its base at Manas, media attention turned to the question of alternatives. A careful discussion of ...

U.S. forces have begun the process of relocating from a Kyrgyzstan base that was one of the first set up overseas in 2001 to prosecute the invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. The ...

Peter J. Ganci Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, June 11, 2002: Cpl. Randy Novak, an aircraft mechanic with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 checks the refueling cone on an F/A-18D Hornet.