Bagram Air Base was established by the United States in the 1950s. It was used by the Red Army during the 1980s Soviet–Afghan War. The airfield included large hangars that fell into disrepair during the 1990s civil war. After the removal of the Taliban and the formation of the Karzai administration, the United States took control of the base. It did not need the volume of hangar space, so it built a detention facility inside the large unused hangars. Like the first facilities later built at Guantanamo's Camp X-Ray, the cells were built of wire mesh. Only captives held in solitary confinement have individual cells. The other captives share larger open cells with other captives.