(FILES) Afghan anti-Taliban fighters withdrawing from the Tora Bora mountain (seen in the background) make the victory sign on the way to their base on December 22, 2001, after declaring victory against Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda forces in the northeastern region, the last battleground in Afghanistan. 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 ROMEO GACAD / AFP via Getty Images)