(FILES) Northern Alliance soldiers watch from a distance, the US B-52 bombing on Taliban positions in Khanabad on November 22, 2001 on the frontline between Kunduz and Talogan. 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 JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP via Getty Images)