Pentagon to interview more troops over 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing

Critics say the assault, which killed 183 people during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, could have been stopped

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 US forces' chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped.

The interviews - ordered by Erik Kurilla, a general and head of US 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.