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An explosion rattled an area outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed, just hours after Western governments had warned of a security threat there. Several nations announced on Thursday that they were halting their evacuations from the Kabul airport, as the window for airlifts appeared to narrow even while the Pentagon vowed to continue flights until the end of the month. The decisions came after reports a day earlier of a security threat at the airport, days out from the Aug. 31 deadline for the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Thursday evening, the Pentagon said an explosion had struck an area outside the airport, where large crowds had gathered in recent days. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured or whether anyone was killed. Before the explosion, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands all said that they would no longer be able to facilitate airlifts from Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Slide 1: Ukrainian emergency workers carry an injured pregnant woman outside of a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022 (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka).
Slide 2: Ukrainians huddle under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Slide 3: Natali Sevriukova cries in front of her apartment building destroyed in a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. The image was part of a series of images by Associated Press photographers that was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Slide 4: Bodies of men, some with their hands tied behind their backs, lie on the ground in Bucha, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Slide 5: The body of an unidentified man wearing military fatigues lies on a road barrier near a village retaken by Ukrainian forces on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Slide 6: Volodymyr, 66, injured from a strike, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Slide 7: A dog stands next to the body of an elderly woman killed inside a home in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Slide 8: A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Slide 9: A man runs with items recovered from a burning shop following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Slide 10: Bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Slide 11: A resident wounded after a Russian attack lies inside an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Nov. 24, 2022. (APPhoto/Bernat Armangue)
Slide 12: Tatiana Petrovna, 72, in the yard of a home where the bodies of three civilians lay in Bucha. Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times.
Slide 13: A man walks past a body of civilian in the town of Bucha, not far from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on April 3, 2022. Britain, France, Germany, the US and NATO all voiced horror at Ukrainian reports on April 2, 2022, of nearly 300 bodies lying in the street in Bucha, with some appearing to have been bound by their hands and feet before being shot. Photo: AFP
Slide 14: A dog lies next to the body of a civilian who, according to residents, was killed by Russian soldiers in Bucha. Photo: Reuters
Slide 15: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy examines the site of a recent battle in Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Apr. 4, 2022. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
Photos by Maxim Dondvuk for TIME/Alessio Mamo for the Guardian/Anatolii Stepanov for Getty Images/Oleg Petrasyuk for EPA/Anadolu Agency for Getty Images.
Photos by: The Media Center Ukraine and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.