DUBAI - A Qatar Airways plane returned to Doha from Kabul on Friday, carrying 156 passengers, Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel said.

Qatar Airways flew on Thursday the first international charter flight out of Kabul since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital.

(Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Edmund Blair and Chris Reese) ((maher.chmaytelli@thomsonreuters.com;))