​Canada to resume evacuation flights from Afghanistan soon: Defence minister

 By a Staff Reporter: Canada has announced that evacuation flights from Afghanistan will resume “shortly”. The country expects to take in as many as 20,000 refugees fleeing the Taliban regime in Kabul. While all Canadian diplomats were evacuated before the Afghan capital fell to the Taliban, rescue operations stalled due to uncertainty over access to the Kabul airport. However, that is now expected to begin as Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan tweeted on Wednesday evening that Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) flights to and from Hamid Karzai International Airport will “resume shortly” under Op AEGIS. That operation is being carried out by the CAF and two CC-177 Globemasters “have been assigned for evacuation efforts and will be flying regularly into Kabul”.