(FILES) US soldiers returning from the Gardez battlefield leave a Chinook helicopter which has just transported them back to the US base in Bagram on March 11, 2002, amid the recently launched Operation Anaconda. Most civilian victims of Afghanistan's 2001-2021 war have been left "without justice, reparation or even acknowledgement" of their suffering, the UN said on September 1, 2026. "The world has forgotten us," one of them told AFP in Kabul. (Photo by HOANG DINH Nam / AFP via Getty Images)