In Pictures: Deadly explosions outside Kabul airport

Taliban official says at least 13 people were killed and several others wounded in the blasts in the Afghan capital.

Two explosions went off outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked amid a huge evacuation effort as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. A “complex attack” Thursday at the airport in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, where a enormous international airlift has been under way, caused a number of US and civilian casualties, the Pentagon said. A Taliban official said at least 13 people were killed and several others wounded in the explosions.