Taliban to allow 200 foreigners to leave on charter flights

Departures will be among first international flights to take off from Kabul airport since end of US-led evacuation

Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan were expected to depart the country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation.

The departures will be among the first international flights to take off from Kabul airport since the end of the chaotic US-led evacuation of 124,000 foreigners and at-risk Afghans.