UAE strikes deal with Taliban to manage Kabul airport

The Brussels Times

Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The United Arab Emirates will most likely manage Afghanistan’s Kabul airport as part of the deal reached with the Taliban government in the country.

Ever since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover of the country, the new government has struggled with finding an operator for the country’s major airport – the only links with the world for the landlocked country.

While the Taliban government remains formally unrecognised by the vast majority of the world’s countries, several regional powers – the UAE, Qatar and Turkey – have reportedly been in talks with the Taliban on operating the country’s airports.

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