An Afghan bus driver waits for passengers in Kabul.
(Shah Marai/Getty)
According to our partner the BBC, security officials seized 11 suicide bomb jackets and made several arrests inside a security zone around the Ministry of Defense in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul. The arrests were made less than a kilometer away from the presidential palace. The attack was allegedly intended to attack 11 buses transporting government employees.
Bilal Sawary, correspondent for the BBC in Kabul, joins us live.
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