Qatar Airways plane departs Kabul heading to Doha, al-Jazeera reports

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DUBAI (Reuters) - A Qatar Airways plane departed Kabul on Friday with 156 passengers, heading to Doha, Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel said.

Qatar Airways flew on Thursday the first commercial flight out of Kabul since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital.

(Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Edmund Blair)

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