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Evacuation flights resume at Kabul airport as Biden defends US withdrawal

Afghan politicians to meet Taliban in Doha; Kabul's streets are calm

US soldiers stand guard along a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul (Photo: AP/PTI)
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US soldiers stand guard along a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul (Photo: AP/PTI)

Reuters
Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan resumed early on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.
 
The number of civilians at the airport had thinned out, a Western security official at the facility told Reuters, a day after chaotic scenes in which U.S. troops fired to disperse crowds and people clung to a U.S. military transport plane as it taxied for take-off.
"Many people who were here yesterday have gone home," the official said. Reuters witnesses, however, could still hear occasional shots coming from

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