Doha: The United States has moved most of the 57,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan to Qatar from the Gulf State, with less than 1,400 still at the US military base there, said US general on Saturday.
The US flees around 124,000 people from Kabul last month as part of the large US-LED airlift citizens, Afghans and other citizens when the Taliban took control of the country.
Brigadier General Gerald Donohue told reporters some of them who had been flown from Qatar now in the United States, while others were in Europe, where they were being processed.
Many of the 1,400s are still at Al Udeid base in Qatar scheduled to be flown on Saturday, while small groups that need medical care will remain up to travel, he said.
Citizens of Afghanistan and non-Afghanistan have been flown to Al Udeid and at the peak there are more than 17,500 refugees at the base at one point in time, said General.
Nine babies were born on a base during the evacuation mission, he added.
Following the struggle to evacuate vulnerable Afghanistan, thousands of people, some without documentation or awaiting US visa applications, others in the family with mixed immigration status, are now waiting in “Hub Transit” in third countries.
Afghanistan must overcome the obstacles of the bureaucratic immigration eventually entering the United States.