The Americans rescued hundreds of Afghan Air Force pilots. Yesterday, November 14, the portal abcnews.go.com He reported that the servicemen who fled to Tajikistan were taken to the United Arab Emirates.
Afghan Air Force pilots were important targets for the Taliban. In August of this year, when the Afghan government fell, pilots left the country en masse on military equipment entrusted to them, seeking shelter in neighboring Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Safiya Firozi - Afghan pilot (second female pilot in the Afghan Army)
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According to US Defense Department spokesman John Kirby, the pilots were evacuated as part of a group of 191 Afghans. The Americans evacuated a group of Afghan Air Force servicemen who had taken refuge in Uzbekistan back in September. Now the former servicemen are being checked for further shipment to the United States.
Earlier, the Taliban called on the pilots to return to Afghanistan, promising them amnesty and the possibility of further service. Former servicemen of the Afghan Air Force do not believe this, referring to information that their relatives who remained in the country are regularly interrogated and beaten.