( Photo by Jack Holt / US Central Command ( CENTCOM ) / AFP ) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / JACK HOLT / US CENTCOM " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS JACK HOLT / US Central Command / AFP DALOA , IVORY COAST- OCTOBER 21: A French legionnaire with Operation Unicorn secures a road October 21 , 2002 in Daloa , Ivory Coast . French troops have been deployed to maintain a buffer zone between loyalist and rebel positions and to monitor a ceasefire agreement signed last week . The conflict began after hundreds of government soldiers staged an uprising September 19 , angered by government plans to fire them . As a result , rebel forces took over large areas in the north and demanded President Laurent Gbagbo's resignation . PASCAL LE SEGRETAIN / . / AFP Art romain : scene de batailles entre guerriers romains et barbares lors des guerres marcomanes ( ou marcomanniques ) . Relief du sarcophage dit de Portonaccio d'un general de Marc Aurele . 180-190 . Rome , Museo Nazionale Romano / Luisa Ricciarini / Leemage Patrouille militaire russo-turque à la frontière entre la Syrie et la Turquie , non loin d'Al Darbasiyah , en novembre 2020 . DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP Le coup porté à l'Amérique est brutal . Vingt ans après l'effondrement des tours du World Trade Center , son intervention en Afghanistan s'achève par d'humiliantes scènes de chaos à l'aéroport de Kaboul .