Photo Credit:
David Guttenfelder
 
Photo Caption: 
Khalil, age 34, who lost his leg to a landmine while fighting for the Northern Alliance against the Taliban and al-Qaida in 2001, uses crutches to walk on thawing ice on the steep hillside of his Kabul neighborhhood March 1, 2005.
 
Photographer's Note:
"The Promises of a War.
 
In the early years after the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban, I was photographing the ways that the post 9-11 war was transforming Afghan lives after generations of conflict.
 
I thought that the war in Afghanistan was over."