Photo Credit:
David Guttenfelder
 
Photo Caption: 
Afghan refugees, who have recently returned to Kabul from exile, crowd together in an abandoned Soviet occupation-era government building in Kabul where they live March 4, 2005. An estimated 3.5 million refugees have returned to Afghanistan, most of them from neighboring Pakistan and Iran, since the fall of the Taliban.
 
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."