September 11, 2018: When U.S. and the Taliban marked the 17th anniversary of 9/11

EMT with the Fire Department of New York and first responder Jason Butscher takes a photo while standing within the Tribute In Light installation as it is illuminated over lower Manhattan marking the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City on September 11, 2018.

Commemorations took place in New York and Washington on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed, even as violence erupted in Aghanistan where U.S. troops are still on the ground. In New York, the Bell of Hope rang out at St. Paul’s Chapel to mark the moment at 8.46 a.m. when the first of two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center. Mourners gathered at the National September 11 Memorial Plaza in Manhattan for the annual reading of victims’ names.

Men shout slogans against terrorists after a suicide attack among the protesters in Momandara district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled vest among a group of people protesting a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 25 and wounding about 130, a provincial official said.

 

In Afghanistan, a suicide attack in Momandara district of Nangarhar province killed 68 and wounded about 130. The Islamic State also carried out bombings in three schools.