AdvertisementWhy David Gilkey Was In The Roughest Part Of AfghanistanJune 06, 2016Greg MyrefacebookEmailA member of the Afghan army looks on as an artillery gun fires at Taliban fighters in the hills of Nangahar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, in 2015. NPR photographer David Gilkey, who was killed Sunday, embedded with the Afghan military on multiple occasions to see how it was faring in its fight against the Taliban. (NPR)