{"id":9250,"date":"2021-08-19T02:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/pentagon-us-troops-fired-crowd-control-shots-at-kabul-airport\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:23:07","slug":"pentagon-us-troops-fired-crowd-control-shots-at-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/pentagon-us-troops-fired-crowd-control-shots-at-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: US troops fired crowd-control shots at Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Pentagon-US-troops-fired-crowd-control-shots-at-Kabul-airport.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>US troops guarding the evacuation effort at Kabul airport fired some shots overnight as crowd-control efforts, but there were no indications of casualties or injuries, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Aug. 18, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> informs referring to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby told a news briefing that no shots were fired by American troops at Afghans or anybody else. Kirby said the number of US troops at Kabul\u2019s international airport reached about 4,500 on Aug. 18, and several hundred more were expected over the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A Taliban official separately said Taliban commanders and soldiers were firing into the air on Aug. 18 to disperse crowds at the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no intention to injure anyone,\u201d the official told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos has continued outside the airport, the official said, blaming Western forces for a \u201cchaotic evacuation plan\u201d from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/other-countries\/pentagon-us-troops-fired-crowd-control-shots-at-kabul-airport\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] US troops guarding the evacuation effort at Kabul airport fired some shots overnight as crowd-control efforts, but there were no indications of casualties or injuries, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Aug. 18, Report informs referring to Reuters. Kirby told a news briefing that no shots were fired by American troops at Afghans or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/pentagon-us-troops-fired-crowd-control-shots-at-kabul-airport\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon: US troops fired crowd-control shots at Kabul airport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1593,3058,3057,447,2709,1167,153],"class_list":["post-9250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-airport","tag-crowdcontrol","tag-fired","tag-kabul","tag-pentagon","tag-shots","tag-troops","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}