The United States hopes to soon relocate around 150 US-trained Afghan Air Force pilots and other personnel detained in Tajikistan for more than two months after they flew there at the end of the Afghan war, a US official said.
The State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to offer a timeline for the transfer but
said the United States wanted to move all of those held at the same time. The details of the US plan have not been previously reported.
Reuters exclusively reported from 143 US-trained Afghan personnel being held at a sanatorium in a mountainous, rural area outside of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, waiting for a US flight out to a third country and eventual US resettlement.
