Fewer than 1,400 evacuees from Afghanistan still at Qatar base, US general says

A member of the Qatar Air force walks next to a boy evacuated from Afghanistan, at Al-Udeid airbase in Doha. File photo

The United States has moved most of the 57,000 people it evacuated from Afghanistan to Qatar out of the Gulf state, with fewer than 1,400 still at the US military base there, a U.S. general said on Saturday. The US evacuated roughly 124,000 people from Kabul last month as part of a huge US -led airlift of its citizens, Afghans and other nationals as the Taliban took control of the country. Brigadier General Gerald Donohue told reporters some of those who had been flown out of Qatar were now in the United States, while others were in Europe, where they are being processed. Many of the 1,400 still at Al Udeid base in Qatar are scheduled to be flown out on Saturday, while a small group needing medical care would stay until able to travel, he said.