The United States has been in Afghanistan since 2001, when it invaded along with allied forces. AP photographers have been there every step of the way over the last two decades, documenting the conflict, occupation and now, chaotic departure.
AP photographers have also been there every step of the way, documenting for the outside world the protracted conflict and occupation over the course of two decades, and now the unexpectedly chaotic departure as the Taliban swiftly reassert control over the country.
Aboard a helicopter on a medevac mission, two U.S. army soldiers treated a member of the Afghan National Army who was wounded by gunfire during an assault in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah. On a hillside overlooking Kabul, boys chased each other and kicked a soccer ball across a dirt field. Villager girls gazed at U.N. workers unloading ballot kits from a helicopter in a remote northeastern area where an airlift was the only way to deliver materials for the country’s first direct presidential vote.
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