From the DW:
“Afghanistan: Qatar says more
foreigners flown out of Kabul”
(The Qatar Airways flight
departed from Kabul Sunday afternoon, according to Doha)
According to Doha, over 230
Afghan, US and European nationals were aboard the Qatari flight, the fourth to
evacuate citizens since the end of the US mission in Afghanistan. A chartered
flight carrying over 230 civilians from Taliban-controlled Kabul to Doha took
off Sunday, a Qatari Foreign Ministry official said. It was the fourth Qatari flight to evacuate
citizens out of Afghanistan since Western forces finalized their massive
airlift following the Taliban takeover. Lolwah
Rashid al Khater, the Qatari assistant foreign minister, said the Qatar Airways
operated flight carried Afghan, German and US nationals, as well as citizens
from Belgium, Ireland, Canada, France, Italy, Britain, Finland and the
Netherlands. Reuters news agency quoted
another Qatari official as saying there were 236 passengers aboard, making it
the largest evacuation flight since the US troop withdrawal last month. "Qatar will continue its collaboration
with international partners on efforts that ensure freedom of movement in
Afghanistan, while working with various parties on the ground towards more
general progress in the country moving forward," the second official told
Reuters.
Post US pullout evacuations Between
August 14 and August 30, the US withdrew about 6,000 of its nationals and
another 124,000 civilians, with officials estimating around 100 Americans were
still in Kabul. Since then, hundreds of people have been evacuated on
the four Qatar Airways flights. A
total of 36 US citizens have left Afghanistan after Washington withdrew its
forces from Afghanistan, US State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said on
Friday. Qatar has emerged as a
key player in efforts to evacuate citizens from Afghanistan after the Taliban
seized power. The Gulf state,
which has been a close US ally, has maintained ties with the Taliban for years.
Doha houses a political office of the fundamentalist militants, as well as the
largest US military base in the Middle East.
^ 19 days and counting (since the Withdrawal.) Is Biden trying to get a show on TLC? There are still hundreds of American and Foreign Citizens and thousands of our Afghan Helpers abandoned in Afghanistan.
https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-qatar-says-more-foreigners-flown-out-of-kabul/a-59233175
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