First foreigners on commercial flight fly out of Kabul since US pulled out

Foreigners board a Qatar Airways aircraft at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Dozens of foreigners have left Kabul on an international commercial flight, marking the first large-scale evacuation since US and NATO forces left Afghanistan late last month.

Their departure represented a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the US and Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders.