US bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul: Activists

"They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a US port of entry," Bryan Stern, a founder of non-profit group Project Dynamo, said of the department's Customs and Border Protection agency.

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied US landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and US green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organizers of the flight said.

"They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a US port of entry," Bryan Stern, a founder of non-profit group Project Dynamo, said of the department's Customs and Border Protection agency.