Taliban petition to resume international flights from Kabul

The Taliban are now calling for international flights out of Afghanistan to resume, claiming the issues at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul have been resolved nearly a month after the United States’s military withdrawal from the region.

“As the problems at Kabul International Airport have been resolved and the airport is fully operational for domestic and international flights, the [Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan] assures all airlines of its full cooperation,” said Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the Taliban’s foreign ministry spokesman.