Ten U.S. citizens and 11 lawful permanent residents were aboard the first commercial flight out of Kabul since the Taliban overthrew the Western-backed Afghan government and U.S. military forces left the country at the end of last month, according to the Biden administration.
State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed the numbers on Thursday night, the day the flight took off for Doha, Qatar, and noted they had invited 39 people to be on the plane.
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