Canadian Special Forces Operating Outside Kabul Airport to Help Evacuees: Officials

A Taliban fighter stands guard at a checkpoint in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 22, 2021. AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

OTTAWA—The military’s special forces are operating outside the closed confines of Kabul’s chaotic airport to get people on flights out of Afghanistan, Canadian officials disclosed Monday.