The New York Times

Manas Air Base (Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan)

The United States formally gave Kyrgyzstan control of Manas Air Base, in another American step out of the Afghanistan war. By Douglas Schorzman Washington’s brief effort to extend American influence ...
Stars and Stripes

Manas Air Base closure signed into Kyrgyz law

Kyrgyzstan’s president has signed a bill closing a key U.S. support base for the war in Afghanistan, apparently making the decision to close Manas Air Base final. Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed the ...
The Washington Post

Kyrgyz Parliament Approves Plan to Close U.S. Air Base

MOSCOW, Feb. 19 -- The Kyrgyzstan parliament voted Thursday to close a U.S. air base that the Pentagon had hoped to use to expand NATO operations in Afghanistan and reduce the need to ship supplies ...
Stars and Stripes

Manas airmen get turn as tourists in Kyrgyzstan

NEAR TOKMOK, Kyrgyzstan — The group wound its way around the narrow bend, the horses treading carefully on the edge of the snowy precipice. Snow-filled valleys yawned below, peering up at craggy, snow ...
The Washington Post

U.S. to extend Kyrgyz air base fuel contract despite questions

The Obama administration is planning to temporarily extend a multimillion-dollar jet fuel contract with a company that supplies a U.S. facility key to the war effort ...
Aviation Week

Clock Ticking For Manas Air Base, But U.S. Officials Hopeful

BEAT THE CLOCK: The United States still is trying to come to some agreement with Kyrgyz officials and the Manas Air Base there continues to operate under the existing agreement as a key logistics hub ...
Reuters

U.S. pays to keep Kyrgyz base open for Afghan supply

BISHKEK (Reuters) - The United States has agreed to pay $180 million to Kyrgyzstan to keep open the last remaining U.S. air base in Central Asia which is used to supply troops fighting Taliban ...
Reuters

U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan starts shutting down

MANAS, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - A U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, used as a hub for operations in Afghanistan, has started to shut down and will close by mid-August as ordered by the Central Asian state, ...
Grand Forks Herald

GF base personnel stationed near Kyrgyzstan uprising

Personnel from Grand Forks Air Force Base are stationed at Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan, which is near the capital city of Bishkek where dozens of people were killed in an apparent take-over of the ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Kyrgyzstan denies U.S.-led coalition use of base

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyz lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Friday to suspend an agreement that allows U.S.-led coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan to use an air base on its territory. The ...
Time

Bus Station for Afghanistan: Coming and Going…Now Going, For Good

When the troops at Manas are headed to or from home, they fly in commercial jets (left). But to or from Afghanistan, they board C-17s (right)Air Force (left) and Getty Images (right) The Manas air ...