Local people check a building destroyed in U.S airstrikes in Khalil Abad village, outskirt of Pul-e-Alam, Afghanistan, Sept. 7, 2017. The Taliban regime collapsed under the U.S.-led military invasion in late 2001. However, militants loyal to the ousted Taliban regime staged a violent comeback in 2006 and since then the hardliner group and some 20 more like-minded outfits have been fighting tooth and nail to evict the U.S.-led forces from Afghanistan to re-establish their own regime. (Xinhua/Ahmadi)
