The first flight allowed to take off from Kabul’s airport since U.S. troops withdrew from the country late last month safely landed in nearby Qatar, U.S. officials said. The Qatar Airways plane left Hamid Karzai International Airport on the evening of Sept. 9 local time and landed in Qatar several hours later. “This is a historic day in the history of Afghanistan as Kabul airport is fully operational. We have been faced by huge challenges … but we can now say that the airport is fit for navigation,” Mutlaq al-Qahtani, Qatar’s special envoy to Afghanistan, told Qatari-funded Al Jazeera on the Kabul airport tarmac before the flight took off. The Taliban terrorist group let the flight depart. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, standing nearby, said that Qatari officials have helped bring the airport back online. Emily Horne, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement that the U.S. government facilitated the …
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