Explosions outside the Kabul airport on Thursday have upended the evacuation effort there and taken the lives of American soldiers and Afghans. At the time of the blasts, the airport was crowded with people trying to leave Afghanistan. The World’s Shirin Jafaari has been following the drama in Kabul.
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