10 things you need to know today: September 5, 2021

Kabul airport reopens for domestic flights, Taliban, resistance continue to clash in Panjshir, and more

Hamid Karzai International Airport.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

1. Kabul airport reopens for domestic flights

Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport has reopened for domestic flights after a technical team from Qatar repaired parts of the air traffic control system, Ariana Afghan Airlines and a Taliban commander in charge of airport security said. Several flights resumed between the capital and three other major provincial cities on Saturday, while a humanitarian aid flight from the United Arab Emirates landed at the airport, which was the site of a chaotic evacuation process over the last few weeks as the United States and other Western nations withdrew from Afghanistan after the Taliban took Kabul. Although the airport is up and running again, it's reportedly still operating without radar or navigation systems.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.