Gathering crowds at both the Abbey Gate and The Baron Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, were vulnerable to attacks, including Thursday's explosions.

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This image shows the dense crowds of Afghans and U.S. troops at a gate outside Kabul’s airport on Thursday, just hours before two explosions ripped through the crowds and killed dozens of people.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Bilal Sarwary, who's based in the Afghan capital Kabul, about the unstable security situation in Afghanistan as U.S. troops leave the country.

According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Long War Journal real-time map of control, the Taliban now control 242 of Afghanistan's 407 districts—almost 60 percent—with another 100 ...

Early Sunday, our reporting dug up more bad news: The Taliban had taken the larger towns near Kabul. All summer we had been plotting the captured cities and districts on a map in the bureau newsroom.

Under the oversight of the the Ministry of Transport in Afghanistan, the Kabul Air Control Center took the reigns of Afghan high-altitude airspace on May 15, 2005, and with it the responsibility ...

Famitsu magazine has unwittingly leaked the Afghanistan map for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.. As leaks come and go, this one is at least a mitigated spoiler. This is the physical map you ...

Travel direction from Saint Petersburg to Kabul is and direction from Kabul to Saint Petersburg is The map below shows the location of Saint Petersburg and Kabul. The blue line represents the straight ...

See more stories on Insider's business page. A map of the Kabul airport clearly shows the choke points that made fleeing Afghans vulnerable to Thursday's bombings outside the airport. Explosions ...