In pictures: A look back at the war in Afghanistan

As the US and Taliban are set to sign a historic deal in Doha raising hopes for peace in the strife-torn country
Reuters | February 29, 2020

An Afghan family ride on a bike past the site of a car bomb attack where US soldiers were killed near Bagram air base, Afghanistan April 9, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Afghan policemen stand next to a captured Taliban fighter after a gun battle near the village of Shajoy in Zabol province, Afghanistan March 22, 2008. PHOTO: REUTERS


US Marine Lance Corporal Chris Sanderson, 24, from Flemington, New Jersey shouts as he tries to protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in the town of Marjah, in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, Afghanistan February 13, 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS


A group of men detained for suspected Taliban activities are held for questioning at a schoolhouse in the village of Kuhak in Arghandab District, north of Kandahar, Afghanistan July 9, 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS



Members of the US Navy carry a comrade wounded by an explosion to a medevac helicopter in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan October 2, 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS


US troops assess the damage to an armoured vehicle of NATO-led military coalition after a suicide attack in Kandahar province, Afghanistan August 2, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS


US soldier Nicholas Dickhut from 5-20 infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne points his rifle at a doorway after coming under fire by the Taliban while on patrol in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan April 26, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS


US Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. PHOTO: REUTERS
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