Afghanistan war: A decade in PHOTOS

In the aftermath of the ghastly 9/11 attacks in the United States, then president George W Bush argued that the Taliban in Afghanistan were sheltering the culprits, Al Qaeda.

The call to war in Afghanistan won the support of NATO, with then British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead as the US's most enthusiastic ally. The war began on 8 October 2001.

Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died. Some 200,000 people are internally displaced and three million have become refugees. Among the occupying troops there have been 2,670 casualties -- including 1,717 from the US and 382 from Britain.

And the war is still not over. Despite pumping in billions of dollars into the warzone, the allied forces are yet to completely accomplish their task.

Let's see some glimpses of the Afghan war over the decade.

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Two Northern Alliance soldiers watch as dust and smoke rise after explosions hit Taliban positions on Kalakata hill, near the village of Ai-Khanum in northern Afghanistan, November 1, 2001

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