Italy Expects Last Evacuation Flight out of Afghanistan on Friday

Afghan evacuees queue before boarding Italy's military aircraft C130J during evacuation at Kabul airport, Afghanistan on Aug. 22, 2021. Italian Ministry of Defence/Handout via Reuters

ROME—The Italian government expects its last evacuation flight to leave Afghanistan later on Friday, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters.

“In the next few hours the last C-130 plane will depart from Kabul airport,” Di Maio said after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Rome.