US Sending Another 1,000 Troops To Afghanistan

Washington (AP) 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. The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a deployment decision not yet announced by the Pentagon..