In Pics | The people of Afghanistan amid the two decades of conflict in the country
Portraits of a civilian population that has borne the brunt of two decades of conflict in Afghanistan.
Reuters
August 17, 2021 / 14:18 IST
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Afghan girls study at an open area, founded by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), outside Jalalabad city, Afghanistan September 16, 2015. (Image: Reuters)
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A couple walk hand-in-hand at a local bazaar in Kabul, March 13, 2014. Despite decades of conflict in Afghanistan, and several recent militant attacks, the country's capital Kabul is home to a vibrant youth scene of musicians, artists, athletes and activists. Shopping malls and cafes stand in the city, which is nonetheless beset by infrastructure problems and instability. Afghanistan is preparing for an election on April 5 that should mark the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history, but it has been hit by a tide of violence as the Islamist Taliban movement has ordered its fighters to disrupt the vote and threatened to kill anyone who participates. (Image: Reuters)
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A female soccer player controls a ball during a training session at the Golab Trust Sport Complex in Kabul March 10, 2014. Despite decades of conflict in Afghanistan, and several recent militant attacks, the country's capital Kabul is home to a vibrant youth scene of musicians, artists, athletes and activists. Shopping malls and cafes stand in the city, which is nonetheless beset by infrastructure problems and instability. Afghanistan is preparing for an election on April 5 that should mark the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history, but it has been hit by a tide of violence as the Islamist Taliban movement has ordered its fighters to disrupt the vote and threatened to kill anyone who participates. (Image: Reuters)
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An Afghan female power-lifter demonstrates during a local sport ceremony in a stadium in Kabul March 8, 2014. Despite decades of conflict in Afghanistan, and several recent militant attacks, the country's capital Kabul is home to a vibrant youth scene of musicians, artists, athletes and activists. Shopping malls and cafes stand in the city, which is nonetheless beset by infrastructure problems and instability. Afghanistan is preparing for an election on April 5 that should mark the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history, but it has been hit by a tide of violence as the Islamist Taliban movement has ordered its fighters to disrupt the vote and threatened to kill anyone who participates. (Image: Reuters)
Afghan boys play near a residential complex which is under construction in Kabul, March 5, 2014. Despite decades of conflict in Afghanistan, and several recent militant attacks, the country's capital Kabul is home to a vibrant youth scene of musicians, artists, athletes and activists. Shopping malls and cafes stand in the city, which is nonetheless beset by infrastructure problems and instability. Afghanistan is preparing for an election on April 5 that should mark the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history, but it has been hit by a tide of violence as the Islamist Taliban movement has ordered its fighters to disrupt the vote and threatened to kill anyone who participates. (Image: Reuters)
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Children run away after an explosion in Kabul May 24, 2013. Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the area. (Image: Reuters)
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An Afghan woman looks out from a helicopter window at the International Airport in Kabul March 7, 2013. Afghan women take a tour around Kabul to mark International Women's Day. (Image: Reuters)
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Afghan boys play on a destroyed car at a hilltop in Kabul October 18, 2012. (Image: Reuters)
Shakila Naderi (L), teaches a girl how to drive a car, in Kabul May 15, 2012. The morning after the Taliban fell Naderi shed her head-to-toe burqa, sat behind the wheel of a car for the first time and asked her husband to teach her how to drive. Now Kabul's only female driving instructor, she teaches women a rare skill that confronts harsh opposition in ultra-conservative, Muslim Afghanistan. (Image: Reuters)
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Afghans gather to celebrate Afghan New Year (Nawroz) in Kabul March 20, 2012. Afghanistan uses the Persian calendar which runs from the vernal equinox. The calendar takes as its start date the time when the Prophet Mohammad moved from Mecca to Medina in 621 AD. The current Persian year is 1391. (Image: Reuters)
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A newly graduated soldier from the Afghan National Army (ANA) attends a graduation ceremony in Kabul September 23, 2010. Afghanistan's army got its first female officers in decades when 29 women graduated in a class of new recruits. (Image: Reuters)
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An Afghani girl looks at U.S. Marine Capt. Micajah Caskey, from 8th Marine Regiment, while he talks with her father during a foot patrol in Garmsir district in Helmand province, October 5, 2009. (Image: Reuters)
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Afghan national army soldier sleeps outdoors during sunrise at their compound inside at Panjwai district in Kandahar, May 31, 2009. (Image: Reuters)
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Afghan children look at Canadian soldiers of the NATO-led coalition while they patrol in their compound in the Taliban stronghold of Zhari district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, March 19, 2009. (Image: Reuters)
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Members of the Afghan cricket team arrive in Kabul February 3, 2009. Afghanistan's national cricket team arrived home to a modest but ecstatic crowd after reaching the final stage of the 2011 World Cup qualifiers. (Image: Reuters)
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A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after 5 years of Taliban Sharia law as she waits at a food distribution centre in central Kabul on November 14, 2001. Under its strict interpretation of Islam, the Taliban ordered all women hidden behind head-to-toe burqas. Afghan opposition forces consolidated their hold on the newly captured capital of Kabul and said new gains meant the Taliban now held less than 20 percent of the country as international calls intensified for a new broad-based government and more U.N. involvement. (Image: Reuters)
