In Afghanistan
U.S. Marines carry the Stars and Stripes during a ceremony in the American embassy in Kabul, December 17, 2001. The United States re-established a diplomatic presence in the Afghan capital for the first time since its diplomats left the city shortly before the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989. On a cold and drizzly afternoon, two U.S. Marines hoisted the same Stars and Stripes on the same flagpole from which it was taken down on January 30, 1989.
