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  • Updated: January 27, 2022

First Flight Of American Evacuees Leave Kabul Airport For Qatar

First Flight Of American Evacuees Leave Kabul Airport For Qa

The first chartered flight evacuating Americans from Afghanistan has left the Kabul Airport for Qatar.

According to the NBC NEWS, the passengers onboard the Qatar Airways charter include more than 30 Americans.

The chartered flight, run by the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs and paid for by the U.S. State Department is the first to leave Kabul since November.

Before the Taliban suspended flights, about one or two chartered flights a week were heading to Qatar.

NBC NEWS cited a congressional official saying the Taliban began demanding several seats on the flights for Taliban fighters to leave the country to work in other countries and send money back to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is facing a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban seized power. The country’s economy is in jeopardy, and millions of Afghans are short of food.

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