US sending another 1,000 troops to Afghanistan

A defense official said on Sunday that 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne are going directly to Kabul instead of going to Kuwait as a standby force.

The United States is sending another 1,000 troops to Afghanistan, raising the US deployment to roughly 6,000. A defense official tells The Associated Press on Sunday that 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne are going directly to Kabul instead of going to Kuwait as a standby force.