US fighter jets flying over Kabul to ensure evacuation security: Pentagon

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told a news briefing the jets had not conducted "low pass" flights over the city but had been engaged in "overwatch."

Armed U.S. fighter jets have been flying over Kabul to ensure security for the evacuation operation, the Pentagon said on Thursday, adding that there had been no hostile interactions with the Taliban or attempts to impede the evacuation. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told a news briefing the jets had not conducted "low pass" flights over the city but had been engaged in "overwatch." "The overwatch flights ... have been in the air since before the noncombatant evacuation operation. It`s prudent force protection measures in the air, to make sure that we can protect our people and our operations against any threat," he said.