While addressing a press conference on the evacuation operations from Kabul amid Afghanistan crisis, US Major General Hank Taylor informed that the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has been reopened for evacuation operations. “At 15.35 Eastern Time here, the airfield at Hamid Karzai International Airport was open for operations. Shortly thereafter, the first C17 landed. The next C17 is preparing to land now. Now that the airfield is open (in Kabul) and our mission is to make sure that it remains open so that we can continue expediting flights in and out,” said Major General Hank Taylor.