NATO calls on Taliban to allow departure of all who want to leave

FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is seen after giving a speech during a memorial service at the Oslo Cathedral ten years after the Oslo and Utoeya island bomb attack, in Oslo, Norway, July 22, 2021. NTB/Torstein Boee/via REUTERS

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on the Taliban on Tuesday to facilitate the departure of all those who want to leave Afghanistan, and said the Western defence alliance has agreed to send additional evacuation planes to Kabul.

(Reporting by John Chalmers and Sabine Siebold)