Officials said that more flights are scheduled but declined to provide more details, citing security issues.
The first evacuation flight, under the relocation program dubbed Operation Allies Refuge, includes more than 200 Afghan immigrants and their immediate families.
"They have all completed rigorous security background checks conducted by the intelligence community and the Departments of State and Homeland Security," explained senior deputy Homeland Security Advisor Russ Travers. "They are at the very end of the immigrant visa process, lacking only a couple of steps that we will be performing at Fort Lee, Virginia," Jacobson said, adding that more flights are scheduled over the next couple of weeks., effectively ending America's longest war.U.S. troops from Afghanistan
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