Names Of U.S. Service Members Who Died Alongside 170 Afghans In Kabul Released

The 13 troops were likely among the last to die in America's 20-year war in Afghanistan as they helped clear people for evacuation.

The U.S. Department of Defense has released the names of all 13 U.S. service members who died in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Thursday. Only one of the troops who died in the bombing had reached their 30th birthday. The other 12 were as young as 20, hailing from all over the U.S. Their remains were being flown back to the U.S. Saturday morning, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Saturday. They were likely some of the last members of the American military to die in the Afghanistan War, and were killed alongside around 170 Afghans when the blast rocked a gate where U.S. troops were completing face-to-face security checks, surrounded by a crowd of desperate people standing, at some points, in a ditch full of sewage water.