UAE sends aid to Taliban’s Afghanistan

The delivery is the first from the United Arab Emirates since the Taliban seized control of the country during the US military withdrawal.
A man carries bread on a wheelbarrow at a market in downtown Kabul on Aug. 28, 2021, following the Taliban's stunning military takeover of Afghanistan.
A man carries bread on a wheelbarrow at a market in downtown Kabul on Aug. 28, 2021, following the Taliban's stunning military takeover of Afghanistan. - AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images
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Al-Monitor Staff

The United Arab Emirates sent humanitarian aid to Afghanistan on Friday.

The plane brought “urgent” medical and food aid to the country, which the Taliban took nearly complete control of last month during the US military pullout. The UAE framed the dispatch as part of its commitment to "provide full support to the brotherly Afghan people,” the official Emirates News Agency reported.

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