US Says a Dozen Countries to Let Kabul Evacuation Flights Transit

US Says a Dozen Countries to Let Kabul Evacuation Flights Transit
Evacuees from Afghanistan arrive at the U.S. military airbase in Ramstein near Landstuhl, Germany, on August 20, 2021. Tilman Blasshofer/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. government said on Friday that a dozen countries, from Europe to the Middle East and Central Asia, will allow Americans and others evacuated from Kabul to transit their territory as it steps up its evacuation efforts from Afghanistan.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Bahrain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar, Tajikistan, Turkey, the UAE, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan had already begun or will soon begin transiting Americans, or in some circumstances others, through their territories.