Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
Afghans make their way through a flooded street toward a nearby airport entrance to try their chance at evacuating out of the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 25, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)
A Taliban security personnel gestures as women stand in a queue outside the passport office in Herat on August 26, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of Taliban security force stand guard along a blocked road after a suicide blast near Afghanistan's foreign ministry at the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on January 11, 2023. (Wakil Kohsar via Getty Images)
Abdul Ghani Baradar and Wang Yu attend a press conference to announce an oil extraction contract with a Chinese company in Kabul on January 5, 2023. (Ahmad Sahel Arman via Getty Images)
Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Scott Hardman)
A US Air Force security forces raven maintains security aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan on August 24, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Donald R. Allen)