Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal and their victory in the Afghan conflict on US in...
Former Northern Alliance soldiers ride a vehicle March 8, 2002 towards the town of Gardez, in Afghanistan. Between 700 to 1,000 soldiers with...
Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along the roadside in Kabul on August 16 after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as...
In this picture taken on September 26 Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand on a hillside at Maydan Shahr in Wardak province, west of...
Afghan militia gather with their weapons to support Afghanistan security forces against the Taliban, in Afghan warlord and former Mujahideen leader...
Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media on November 4, 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan. Twenty Taliban...
In this picture taken on July 15 Afghan militia fighters keep a watch at an outpost against Taliban insurgents at Charkint district in Balkh Province.
Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media on November 4, 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan. Twenty Taliban...
Taliban fighters stand guard along a road near the site of an Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of...
Taliban fighters w. Tank at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held...
An Afghan National Army soldier looks towards the Pakistani border only 200 meters away October 17, 2006 near Camp Tillman in the Paktika province of...
In this picture taken on August 13 a Taliban fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan's third biggest city,...
Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance gate outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul on August 17, 2021.
Taliban fighters stand guard along a roadside near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on August 16 after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war,...
Taliban fighters drive an Afghan National Army vehicle through the streets of Laghman province on August 15, 2021.
Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Shirzais men patrol the streets near his compound December 12, 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Kandahar has been peaceful...
People wave Taliban flags as they drive through the Pakistani border town of Chaman on July 14 after the Taliban claimed they had captured the Afghan...
Northern Alliance fighters battle pro-Taliban forces November 27, 2001 in a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance, helped...
Taliban fighters on a pick-up truck move around a market area, flocked with local Afghan people at the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17 after...
Afghan militia forces stand guard at an outpost as they patrol against the Taliban fighters in the Tange Farkhar area of Taloqan in northern Takhar...
Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon with images of women defaced using spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021.
Taliban fighter mans a machinegun on top of a vehicle as they patrol along a street in Kabul on August 16 after a stunningly swift end to...
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul on August 16 after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed...
In this picture taken on July 11, 2021 an Afghan militia fighter keeps a watch at an outpost against Taliban insurgents at Charkint district in Balkh...
Smoke rises from the site of an attack after a massive explosion the night before near the Green Village in Kabul on September 3, 2019. - A massive...
In this picture taken on August 13 Taliban fighters are pictured in a vehicle along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan's third biggest city, after...
Man standing on Afghanistan's side of the border holds a Taliban flag as people walk towards a border crossing point in Pakistan's border town of...
Taliban fighters atop vehicles with Taliban flags parade along a road to celebrate after the US pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar...
Thousands of Taliban supporters rallied October 1, 2001 in the town of Quetta, Pakistan. Quetta is located near the Afghanistan border.
In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia fires a heavy machine gun during an ongoing fight with Taliban...
British soldiers from the B Squadron of the Light Dragoons Regiment read magazines in a location in the desert while conducting counter-Taliban...
Taliban fighters stand guard along a street near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on August 16 after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war,...
Taliban patrol in Herat city after took control in Herat, Afghanistan, on August 18, 2021 as Taliban take control of Afghanistan after 20 years.
Afghan security personnel and Afghan militia fighting against Taliban, stand guard in Enjil district of Herat province on July 30, 2021.
Afghan armed men supporting the Afghan security forces against the Taliban stand with their weapons and Humvee vehicles at Parakh area in Bazarak,...
Thousands of Afghans rush to the Hamid Karzai International Airport as they try to flee the Afghan capital of Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021.
Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid attends the first press conference in Kabul on August 17 following their stunning takeover of Afghanistan.
Members of Syria's top jihadist group the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, parade with their flags and those...
Pakistani tribesmen raise their red-ribbon tied AK-47 assualt rifles during a meeting in Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal territory...
Farzia who lost her husband in Baghlan one week ago to fighting by the Taliban sits with her children, Subhan and Ismael in a tent at a makeshift IDP...
Representatives of Taliban led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar , accompanied by Head of Political Office of the Taliban Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai...
Afghans crowd at the tarmac of the Kabul airport on August 16 to flee the country as the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan after President...
Pakistani soldier stands guard as stranded Afghan nationals return to Afghanistan at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on...
Taliban fighters stand guard along a roadside near the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on August 16, 2021 as the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan after...
Taliban fighters w. Tank at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held...
Taliban fighter holds RPG rocket propelled as he stands guard with others at an entrance gate outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul on August 17,...
An Afghan man wearing a lungee turban and patoo shawl, the barrel of his rifle held between his hands, with similarly dressed men in the background,...
Taliban fighter stands guard as people move past him at a market with shops dealing with currency exchange in Kabul on September 5, 2021.
Taliban gunmen control Kandahar-Herat Highway, near Kandahar city, 31 October 2001, where two oil tankers were hit by American missiles, killing...
Taliban fighters and local residents sit on an Afghan National Army Humvee vehicle along the roadside in Laghman province on August 15, 2021.
People gather around a Taliban flag as they wait for relatives released from jail in Afghanistan following an 'amnesty' by the Taliban, near the...
Taliban fighters atop a Humvee vehicle take part in a rally in Kabul on August 31, 2021 as they celebrate after the US pulled all its troops out of...
Taliban flag is seen on a plinth with people gathered around the main city square at Pul-e-Khumri on August 11, 2021 after Taliban captured...
The leader of the Taliban negotiating team Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar walks after the final declaration of the peace talks between the Afghan...
Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul on August 23, 2021 as in the capital, the Taliban have enforced some sense of calm in a...
American soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division deploy to fight Taliban fighters as part of Operation Mountain Thrust to a U.S. Base near the...