- According to the Wall Street Journal, about 200 Americans and other foreigners were allowed to leave Afghanistan by plane on Thursday.
- This scheduled flight will be the first flight to leave Afghanistan after the United States withdraws.
- A Republican congressman previously claimed that the Taliban held Americans as “hostages” in the country.
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On Thursday, the Taliban allowed 200 U.S. citizens and other unnamed foreign citizens to leave Afghanistan by plane. “Wall Street Journal” reported.
Leaving is the first time since then U.S. forces withdrew all remaining troops from Kabul on August 30, Hand over control of the airport to the Taliban, and end the evacuation of American citizens and eligible Afghans. Other Western countries, including the United Kingdom, ended their evacuation before the United States.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the 200 Americans and other foreigners will leave Afghanistan for Qatar on a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 jet on Thursday, which landed in Kabul a few hours ago.
A senior Qatari official told The Wall Street Journal that all passengers hold foreign passports, so Thursday’s flight is not an evacuation flight.
Thousands of Afghans who tried to flee the Taliban were still trapped in the country after the United States and other countries ended their evacuation.
The Qatari official also said that starting from Thursday, daily flights from Afghanistan to foreign countries will become the norm.
On Sunday, Republican Representative Michael McCall Once claimed that the Taliban refused to let six planes carrying Americans leave From Mazar-e-Sharif Airport in northern Afghanistan.
McCall, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Fox News’ Chris Wallace: “The Taliban are now holding them hostage and asking them to make demands.”
