The Latest: Some domestic flights resume at Kabul airport

KABUL, Afghanistan — Some home flights person resumed astatine Afghanistan's planetary airdrome successful Kabul, with the state-run Ariana Afghan Airline operating flights to 3 provinces.

Shershah Stor, the airline's presumption manager astatine the airport, told The Associated Press connected Sunday that the flights took spot Saturday to occidental Herat, confederate Kandahar and bluish Balkh provinces. He said the flights were conducted without a functioning radar strategy astatine the airport.

Stor said 3 much flights are scheduled Sunday to the aforesaid provinces.

A squad of Qatari and Turkish technicians arrived successful Kabul past week to assistance restart operations astatine the airport, which the U.N. says is important to providing the state with humanitarian assistance. It remains to beryllium seen, however, whether immoderate commercialized airlines volition beryllium consenting to connection service.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

WASHINGTON — The apical U.S. subject wide has thanked members of the 10th Mountain Division for their work successful Afghanistan during the evacuation of Americans, Afghans and others implicit the past respective weeks.

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Army Gen. Mark Milley, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with subject constabulary soldiers astatine the Rhine Ordnance Barracks successful Germany connected Saturday.

Standing extracurricular talking to a group, helium asked them, “You were determination for the bombing?” Heads nodded and a chorus of voices answered, “yes, sir.”

A termination bombing by the Islamic State radical adjacent a gross astatine the Kabul airdrome much than a week agone killed 13 U.S. work members arsenic good arsenic 169 Afghans who were crowded astir the entry, hopeless to get connected flights retired of Afghanistan.

“You guys did an unthinkable job, each of you — Army, Navy, Marines, the Air Force — flying retired 124,000 people. That’s what you saved,” Milley told the soldiers. He said they “showed tremendous courageousness subject and capability, moving together. It’s thing you should ever beryllium arrogant of... This volition beryllium a infinitesimal that you’ll ever remember.”

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