CGTN, March 7 -- Afghan Chief of Army Staff Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat has accused the United States of violating Afghanistan's airspace, saying that Washington's pilotless planes occasionally enter Afghanistan's airspace.

"American drones occasionally fly over Afghanistan's airspace. Drones occasionally patrol, and Afghanistan's airspace is still occupied by the Americans," the local media outlet Tolonews quoted Fitrat as saying on Wednesday.

Blaming "one of neighboring countries" for allowing the U.S. to operate pilotless planes from its territory over Afghan airspace, the Afghan army chief did not identify the country.

U.S.-led forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, ending a 20-year military occupation of the country. Fitrat also counted...