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A Taliban worker walks connected the tarmac astatine Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. Some home flights person resumed astatine Kabul's airport, with the state-run Ariana Afghan Airline operating flights to 3 provinces. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities volition let betwixt 100 and 150 Westerners, including Americans, to alert retired from Kabul successful the coming hours, Qatari officials said Thursday, marking the airport’s archetypal specified formation since U.S. forces withdrew from the country.

The ample radical of foreigners would depart Thursday connected a Qatar Airways formation that had earlier ferried humanitarian assistance to the country, said Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani, a Qatari peculiar envoy.

Al-Qahtani said it was the archetypal planetary commercialized formation from Kabul airdrome since American forces near astatine the extremity of August, their departure accompanied by a frantic airlift of tens of thousands of overseas citizens and Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

“Call it what you want, a charter oregon a commercialized flight, everyone has tickets and boarding passes,” al-Qahtani said from the tarmac, adding that different commercialized formation would instrumentality disconnected connected Friday. “Hopefully, beingness is becoming mean successful Afghanistan.”

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Another Qatari official, who spoke connected information of anonymity up of the ceremonial announcement, provided the fig of Westerners expected connected board.

The departure of a ample radical of Americans, a archetypal since the U.S. withdrawal, would besides awesome that U.S. officials person travel to an statement with the caller Taliban rulers.

In caller days, determination had been a stand-off betwixt the Taliban and organizers of respective charter planes who had hoped to evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans from an airdrome successful the bluish municipality of Mazar-e-Sharif. The Taliban person said they would fto passengers with valid question documents leave, but that galore of those astatine the bluish airdrome did not person specified papers.

Following the evacuation of implicit 100,000 radical from the state successful the aftermath of the unit pullout, extended harm astatine Kabul airdrome raised questions implicit however soon the transport hub could resume for commercialized flights. Technical experts from Qatar and Turkey person been moving to reconstruct operations.

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