Pentagon says won't use Kabul airport for air attacks as evacuates US officials

The 3,000 US troops being deployed to the Kabul airport to help evacuate embassy staff from Afghanistan will not be used for attacks on the Taliban, the Pentagon said Thursday.

"There is no planning and no discussion of using Hamid Karzai International Airport as a base for conducting airstrikes in and around Afghanistan," said Defense Department spokesman John Kirby.