American troops fired shots at Kabul’s airport in a bid to control crowds trying to enter the facility, the U.S. Department of Defense said Wednesday. The shots were largely fired around gates being guarded by U.S. troops as evacuation flights take off and a mix of Americans and Afghans are processed into the facility, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington. “I can’t account for every bullet, but at least some of these were fired by U.S. personnel on the airport side of the perimeter as crowd control measures, as non-lethal warnings if you will. No shots were fired by American troops at Afghans or anybody else,” Kirby said. “None of these shots that we’re aware of have anything to do with hostile intent or hostile activity. Simply used as crowd control. It’s our troops doing what they’re trained to do, which is try to hold security at the airport …