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Passengers board a Qatar Airways passenger aircraft that arrived at the Kabul airport's tarmac Friday afternoon, the second flight set to take off after the resumption of evacuation flights on Thursday. IMAGES
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price confirms that the first evacuation flight from Kabul since the US-led evacuation ended on August 30 has successfully landed in Doha, Qatar. SOUNDBITE
A Qatar Airways plane carrying passengers from Kabul arrives at Hamad International Airport in Doha, on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on August 30. IMAGES
The commander of American military forces on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington's ambassador there were the last to board the final evacuation flight from Kabul on Monday, says the head of US Central Command. "On the last airplane out was General Chris Donahue, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, and my ground force commander there," Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie tells reporters at the Pentagon, "and he was accompanied by our Charge A (Charge d'Affaires, ed), Ambassador Ross Wilson, so they came out together." SOUNDBITE
Fleeing Afghans are escorted by French military onto evacuation flights at Kabul airport as concern grows the Taliban are blocking Afghans from leaving the country. Tens of thousands of people have tried to flee Afghanistan since the hardline Islamist militants swept into the capital on Sunday, completing a stunning rout of government forces and ending two decades of war. IMAGES
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