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On 26th August 2021, as US forces scrambled to escape from Kabul amid a sweeping return to power for the Taliban, Hamid Karzai International Airport became the scene of one of Afghanistan’s worst atrocities in recent memory.
At least 170 Afghan civilians and 13 US military personnel were killed in a Daesh-orchestrated suicide bombing of the international gateway.
Despite widespread fears of a return to civil war, it took the newly reinstated Taliban authorities just one month to declare their (now renamed) airport “fully operational” and open again for business. The hope was that former partners like Emirates Airline, Flydubai, Turkish Airlines, Air India and Pakistan International Airlines would flock back to the country.
Two years on, however, only Flydubai has accepted the invitation...
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