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Farah Airport is located in the 
Farah Airport was also used for military purposes in the past by the
city
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of Farah in western Afghanistan
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, which is the capital of Farah Province
Farah (Pashto :فرَاه /) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southwestern part of the country on the border with Iran. It is a spacious and sparsely populated province, divided into eleven Districts of Afghanistan, dist ...
. The airport is under the Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, and serves the population of southwestern Afghanistan.
Farah Airport has been providing domestic flight services to several cities in the country, and had been considered for international flights. Qatar was working with local authorities to upgrade Farah Airport for international flights in the late 2010s.
Farah Airport was also used for military purposes in the past by the United States Armed Forces
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, the International Security Assistance Force
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a multinational military mission in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. It was established by United Nations Security Council United Nations Security Council Resolution 1386, Resolution 1386 ac ...
(ISAF), and the old Afghan Air Force (AAF). It was renovated and expanded in the 2010s.
Under a 10-year agreement signed in 2022, Afghanistan's airspace and several of its airports were handed over to the United Arab Emirates
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firm GAAC Holding.
After the Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan in August 2021, all commercial flights were halted at Farah Airport. There has been a push since 2023 to re-establish flights to Kabul. It is known the airport has taken flights from the Red Crescent
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aid organization and has airport security.
See also
*List of airports in Afghanistan
This is a list of airports in Afghanistan, grouped by type and sorted by location.
Description
Afghanistan has four international airports which are expected to increase in the future. The Kabul International Airport serves the population of Kab ...
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* * * * Airports in Afghanistan Farah Province {{Afghanistan-airport-stub