U.S. Sends In More Troops to Secure Kabul Airport

“The U.S. military is deploying another 1,000 paratroopers to help secure Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, where evacuations were halted Monday after thousands of Afghan civilians stormed the runway in an attempt to flee the country,” Axios reports.

“The Pentagon expects the number of U.S. troops in Kabul to reach 6,000.”

New York Times: “The Pentagon said Monday that at this time there were no flights coming or going, military or civilian, into Hamid Karzai International Airport.”