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Pentagon orders new interviews in deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack

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Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug 26, 2021. [AP Photo]

The Pentagon's Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces' chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped.

The interviews, ordered by General Erik Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, were triggered in part by assertions by at least one service member injured in the blast who said he was never interviewed about it and that he might have been able to stop the attackers.

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