
(FILES) Onlookers stand next to the backpacks and books of victims in Dasht-e-Barchi, on the outskirts of Kabul on May 9, 2021, a day after multiple blasts outside a girls' school. 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 Wakil KOHSAR / AFP via Getty Images)


