Afghan refugees who fled to Kabul last month due to the civil war, are forced by Taliban forces to return to their cities on October 29, 2021 in...
Dozens of Afghan gathered for a rally in solidarity with their countrymen on Sunday, on August 15, 2021 to condemn the actions of the Taliban, who...
Madoon Ghaffur is single and works as a singer and actress in the dubbing studio at Ariana Television. Ariana has an ambitious broadcasting schedule...
Night launch of Tomahawk missile from guided missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea during Op. Enduring Freedom, the attack on Afghanistan's Taliban for...
Govt. Girl's high school class in science re threat of closure by Islamic Taliban civil war faction nring city opposing education for women.
Taliban fighter w. Russian Hind Mi-24 gunship captured by new, Islamic civil war faction in taking opposition mujahedin Hekmatyar's HQ outside Kabul.
Fighters of radical Islamic cleric-led Taliban faction reading BBC bklet in Persian Dari language, at HQ of civil war-winning army outside Kabul.
Govt. Soldiers manning machine gun, prepping for attack 5 km. Fr. Civil war front w. Taliban Islamic student army, at position nr. Bini Hisar.
Weapons incl. Rifles & RPGs captured fr. Local mujahedin warlords by Taliban, newcomer Islamic force fast winning factional war.
Rabbani govt. Forces on moving civil war front in factional fighting w. Rival mujahedin incl. Newly dominant Islamic Taliban.
Rabbani govt. Forces on moving civil war front in factional fighting w. Rival mujahedin incl. Newly dominant Islamic Taliban.
Taliban fighters at new radical Islamic faction's HQ, taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by maj. Student army on top in factional civil war.
Taliban fighters w. RPG at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held Kabul.
Taliban fighters at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held Kabul.
Taliban fighters w. APCs at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held...
View of several Taliban fighters as they stand on a tank as it fires a shell during a battle with retreating soldiers , Charikar, Afghanistan,...
Taliban fighters fire their weapons as they run forward during a battle with retreating soldiers , Charikar, Afghanistan, October 16, 1996. After...
Taliban take to the streets during a national holiday celebrating the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2022 in Kabul,...
Taliban take to the streets during a national holiday celebrating the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2022 in Kabul,...
Taliban fighters lay down their weapons as they surrender to the government of Herat Province on October 14, 2009 in Western Afghanistan. More than...
Prince Harry mans a 50mm machine gun aimed at Taliban fighters on January 2, 2008 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Members of the Taliban army ride atop a tank October 15, 1996 near Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban army faces opposition by the guerrillas of Ahmas...
Northern Alliance fighters battle pro-Taliban forces November 27, 2001 in a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance, helped...
An Afghan policeman carries a rocket propelled granade to defend again Taliban attacks at an opium poppy field on April 1, 2006 near Lashkar Gah in...
An Afghan woman begs at a wintry Taliban checkpoint on the Kabul road south to Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan, on January 17, 2022. The UN World Food...
Afghan women, some dressed in niqabs, others in hijabs, with one woman holding her hand out to be marked by a man holding a pen at an registration...
Afghan girls dress up to take part in a parade as Taliban celebrate the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2022 in Kabul,...
Group of Taliban fighters prepare to fight ISIS at a base in Jalalabad on December 18 2021 in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Taliban members pray at a public promenade in western Herat, on October 7, 2021 in Herat, Afghanistan. The Taliban regained control of Afghanistan...
Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit, wielding American supplied weapons, equipment and uniforms, storm into the Kabul International Airport to...
Armed masked men stand guard as suspected terrorist Osama bin-Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri address a news conference May 26, 1998 in Afghanistan. A...
Unidentified women dressed in burqa sit outside a door on June 20, 1996 in Herat, Afghanistan. The Taliban took over most of Afghanistan in late...
Members and supporters of the Taliban gather to commemorate the one year anniversary of the United StatesÕ military withdrawal after a 20-year...
Members and supporters of the Taliban gather to commemorate the one year anniversary of the United StatesÕ military withdrawal after a 20-year...
View of Western tourists posing before the massive height of the smaller giant Buddha, known as Shamama, in Bamiyan, Hazarajat region, central...
Associated Press reporter and stringer Patrick O'Donnell walks up a riverbed outside of the Zhawar training camp built and controlled by Afghan...
Woman & children in potbelly stove-equipped home in civil war lull after Taliban faction rout of city-sieging Hekmatyar mujahedin, prob. In govt-held...
Rabbani govt. Troops at fort garrison overlooking capital in calm after defeat of Hekmatyar mujahedin by dominant civil war Islamic Taliban faction.
Rabbani govt. Tank w. Pic of Def. Min. Massoud at garrison above city in civil war calm w. Rout of Hekmatyar mujahedin by Taliban faction.
Rabbani govt. Soldiers playing cards at fort garrison above city, calm w. Rout of Hekmatyar mujahedin by dominant civil war Taliban faction.
Taliban fighter searching bus passenger for arms @ checkpoint on road to radical Islamic civil war faction's Charasiab HQ .
Men & boys assembled on street in city under control of Taliban, faction led by radical Islamic clerics winning civil war.
Taliban outside village where ruling Islamic movement's supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar lived & studied during Soviet occupation.
An Al-Jazeera TV freeze frame of Afghanistan's Islamic clergy meeting to debate the status of Osama Bin Laden after the US demanded that the ruling...
Afghan and foreign investigators inspect the site of a suicide car bomb attack on May 18, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban attack targeting a...
Afghan women have to wear the burqa once they have passed puberty, as pictured here in the streets of Kabul, carrying bags of food on their heads.
Taliban fighters lay down their weapons as they surrender to the government of Herat Province on October 14, 2009 in Western Afghanistan. More than...
Propaganda leaflets were distributed by Taliban militants stating that women had to wear the burqa, March 31, 2009 in Mardan, Swat Valley, Pakistan.
Group of Shia women supporting a new family law confront opponents of the law on April 15, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Opponents denounce the law as...
United States and Canadian Army medics render first aid to an American soldier, who fainted due to altitude sickness, during search and destroy...
Marines keep watch as fellow Marines search for Taliban arms cashes on March 31, 2009 in the abandoned town of Now Zad in Helmand province...
Afghan police search a section of Kabul after a German woman was kidnapped from a restaurant on August 18, 2007 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Armed men...
Students at an Islamic madrassa burn thousands of movie DVDs, videos and music CDs April 6, 2007 at the Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event,...
An Afghan Army soldier carrying rocket-propelled grenades arrives with fellow Afghan and UK forces to Kajaki on March 12, 2007 in Southern Helmand...
Army soldier climbs a hill towards an American outpost October 15, 2006 near Camp Tillman, Afghanistan just two kilometers from the Pakistan border....
Citizens of Kabul cheer Northern Alliance fighters November 13, 2001 as the rebels ride tanks into the Afghan capital on the heel of fleeing Taliban...
Member of the Afghan Eradication Force cuts opium poppies on April 3, 2006 in a field near Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern...
Poppy farmer Abdul Rassod walks through his field to irrigate it May 29, 2005 in Panshar, in the Badakhshan district in the northeast of Afghanistan....
An Afghan woman, wearing a burqa, is reflected in a shop window at the main market September 30, 2004 in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul is...