At an airport near Charikar in Afghanistan, the bodies of Afghans who had been killed by Taliban shelling were surrounded by Northern Alliance Afghan soldiers, who stared at the shell holes.

　　At an airport near Charikar in Afghanistan, the bodies of Afghans who had been killed by Taliban shelling were surrounded by Northern Alliance Afghan soldiers, who stared at the shell holes. They were carrying out the dead and wounded from the buildings that had been destroyed by Taliban attacks.

　　At the time of the Afghan conflict, there was very little news coverage of the situation in Afghanistan. Chris Steele-Perkins of the photo agency Magnum began working in Afghanistan in 1994 with the aid of Doctors Without Borders. Over the course of five years from 1994 to 1998, he took four trips to Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, and left behind a collection of valuable black-and-white photographs. The photos that captured everyday life in Afghanistan from close up are rare. For over 50 years, Magnum has continued to provide battlefield photos that have gone down in history. However, in those 50 years, there has not been a single year without the outbreak of war.

　　Tanks and soldiers moved back and forth across the devastated Afghan land. The dead and the injured were everywhere. The photographs carefully symbolize the everyday scenes of rubble amid the tension of the conflict. They ask us what peace is and what it means to be isolated from the world. Between 2007 and 2021, an estimated 73,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers were killed, as well as tens of thousands of Taliban fighters.Approximately 47,000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan civil war, and

the Taliban of Afghanistan is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun force that was established in the early 1990s. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and the government it supported collapsed in 1992. After that, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to October 2001. After the Taliban came to power, citizens were abandoned and thrown out into the cold streets, where they either begged, scavenged for garbage, or died. In orphanages, women were abused by Taliban soldiers after being refused permission to work. After the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the US military shot down the Taliban, which supported the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, in October 2001. However, the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021.