USA strikes back—the war in pictures

The Tribune
October 25, 2001

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Injured eighteen-month-old Afghan boy Hameedullah cries as his injured 10-year-old niece Khanam tries to comfort him with her teddy bear at the Al-Khidmat Afghan refugee hospital in Quetta on October 24, 2001. According to Hameedullah's uncle Maroof, 12 members of his family were killed by U.S. airstrikes at their home in the village of Orzagan, north of the Taliban stronghold Kandahar, including four of Hameedullah's five siblings, while the boy's mother was seriously injured. — REUTERS