FILE PHOTO: Afghan evacuees queue before boarding Italy's military aircraft C130J during evacuation at Kabul's?airport, Afghanistan, August 22, 2021. Italian Ministry of?Defence/Handout via REUTERS
ROME (Reuters) - 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.
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