(FILES) Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) shakes hands with US First Lady Laura Bush during a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on June 8, 2008. 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 SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)