A couple of days before American troops leave Kabul on Tuesday, August 31, images to remember from the Afghan capital and elsewhere...
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IMAGE: A Talib guards a street leading to the Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul, August 29, 2021. Photograph: Reuters
IMAGE: Talibs at a check-point on a street in Kabul, August 29, 2021. Photograph: Reuters
IMAGE: Afghans evacuees arrive at the Pristina international airport in Kosovo, August 29, 2021. Photograph: Laura Hasan/Reuters
IMAGE: Children from Afghanistan at the US airbase in Ramstein, Germany, August 28, 2021. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
IMAGE: Evacuees from Afghanistan at the US airbase in Ramstein, Germany, August 28, 2021. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
IMAGE: A protest against the Taliban takeover in Toronto, Canada, August 28, 2021. Photograph: Kyaw Soe Oo/Reuters
IMAGE: A sign in Ohio honouring Max Soviak, one of the 13 US soldiers killed in the August 26, 2021 airport suicide bombing in Kabul, August 29, 2021.
US Navy Corpsman Soviak was a native of Ohio.
Photograph: Megan Jelinger/Reuters
IMAGE: Photographs of US Marine Corps Sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo, another soldier killed in the suicide bombing, at a makeshift memorial for the 13 US troops who lost their lives in Afghanistan on August 26 at the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, August 29, 2021. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters
IMAGE: Roses are placed at the US Marine Corps War Memorial in memory of the 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021, in Virginia, August 29, 2021. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters
Photographs curated by Anant Salvi/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Rajesh Alva/Rediff.com
