US citizens on first Qatar Airways flight from Kabul since pullout - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Sep 9, 2021

WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images — A Qatar Airways aircraft is reflected on the windowpanes of a shuttle bus carrying passengers to board the flight at the airport in Kabul on Sept. 9, 2021. — WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images

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In this handout provided by U.S. Central Command Public Affairs, U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) on Aug. 24, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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