“Seven-year-old Khalid sits as a medic with the 173rd Airborne Division checks his wounds from an explosion the day after heavy combat between American forces and the Taliban in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, in September 2007. The medic claimed the boy’s wounds were not consistent with the timing of US attacks on villages near their homes the night before; the family of the boy claimed he was injured in the coalition bombing. This image speaks to the ambiguity of war and civilian casualties.”
