A technical team has been able to reopen Kabul airport to receive aid and it will be prepared for civilian flights soon, according to Qatar’s ambassador to Afghanistan.
The runway at the airport has been repaired in cooperation with authorities in Afghanistan, the ambassador added on Saturday.
The airport’s runway has been repaired in cooperation with authorities in Afghanistan, the ambassador said, according to Al Jazeera. The channel said two domestic flights were operated from Kabul to the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar.
Kabul airport had been closed since the end of the massive US-led airlift of its citizens, other Western nationals and Afghans who helped Western countries. The end of that operation marked the withdrawal of the last US forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA
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