Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) is a former British Army airbase, located northwest of the city of Lashkargah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The camp was situated in a remote desert area, far from population centres.

The September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion was a Taliban raid on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province on the night of 14 September 2012. [1] The base hosted British, American, Danish and Tongan military personnel at the time of the attack.

2015年11月9日 · Located north-west of Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province, Camp Bastion is a prominent UK military base in Afghanistan. The base is developed in a distant desert area. It is currently serving as the fifth busiest UK-operated airport and is the largest overseas military base camp installed by the UK since World War II.

The Camp Bastion complex in Helmand was the headquarters for British military operations from 2006 until 2014. With the Taliban advancing rapidly and now in control of around two-thirds of Afghanistan, questions are being raised about why the U.K. could not have remained even after the planned departure of U.S. troops by Sept. 11.

2018年8月15日 · What happened to Camp Bastion? For nearly a decade it was the epicentre of Britain’s war in Afghanistan - a huge military city built in the midst of the dusty Helmand desert.

2012年9月24日 · A guide to Camp Bastion, a sprawling, well-fortified British-run base in the desert in southern Afghanistan, which is home to almost 30,000 military personnel and civilians.

For nearly a decade it was the epicentre of Britain’s war in Afghanistan - a huge military city built in the midst of the dusty Helmand desert. Camp Bastion and its adjoining US and Afghan camps once housed 30,000 people, the UK’s largest overseas base since the Second World War.

Camp Bastion is the main British military base in Afghanistan. Accommodating 28,000 people it is situated northwest of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, and exists to be the logistics hub for operations in Helmand.[4]

2019年5月15日 · At Camp Bastion, American Special Operations troops helped rally the Afghan military into a defense. American Marines opened fire from watchtowers around their own small base within the...

Camp Bastion, a fortress, built to fight the Taliban. For eight years the powerhouse for UK and US military operations in Afghanistan. Now, Britain’s biggest military base since WWII is...