The Taliban have stopped US-led evacuation flights.
A US network quoted several sources as saying that the Taliban had suspended flights to evacuate Afghans working with the US and its allies for the past two weeks.
Several U.S. officials on Thursday claimed that the Taliban were blocking flights to evacuate Afghans who had worked with the United States and its allies.
According to the ANBI News website, an official with the US Congress said that the Taliban had prevented such flights in the last two weeks.
A US State Department official confirmed the news, saying the flights had been suspended and “we hope they will resume as planned soon. “Of course, weather conditions and airport management issues are other factors that need to be considered.”
One of the issues related to this issue was the charter flights of Qatar Airways between Kabul and Doha. The Taliban demanded that some seats on these flights be set aside for the group’s fighters and allies so that they could work in other countries after leaving Afghanistan and send the money to Afghanistan, which is in dire need of such funds.
The group also suspended flights after the Qatari government refused to continue allocating seats to those close to the Taliban, according to Anbusi News.
The network quoted the sources as saying that the disputes that led to the suspension of these flights were only related to the Taliban and the Qatari government, and that the United States had no role in them.
State Department spokeswoman Ned Price told NBC News that continuing flights to Kabul airport was critical and that Washington welcomed the quickest possible solution to the dispute and pressured the Taliban to live up to its commitments. .
The US government and its allies ended their 20-year occupation of Afghanistan by the end of August this year, but the evacuation of foreigners and Afghans who helped them was carried out in a scandalous manner, during which a number of Afghan civilians and 13 US troops were killed.
