Raw footage from a major battle with the Taliban in Kabul.
Afghan forces fought for 6 hours with up to 8 insurgents after they assaulted and besieged a building in the centre of Kabul.
The insurgent attack was preceded by a very large explosion, believed to be a car bomb, and gunfire.

The battle raged into the night with multiple explosions believed to be rocket propelled grenades fired by both sides.

An Afghan Security Forces soldier holds the line between clashes and journalists in Kabul. Taliban members and Afghan forces fought a six hour gun battle in the city center. Kabul, Afghanistan. May 2013.

Kabul Police Chief Mohammed Ayub Salingi faces press at the site of a major battle with the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. May 2013.

An Afghan Security Forces officer stands ready with a rocket grenade at the site of a major battle with the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. May 2013.

An Afghan police officer is carried away from the site of a major battle with the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. May 2013.

An Afghan police officer is carried away from the site of a major battle with the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. May 2013.

Amir Mohammad Akhundzada ,the governor on Uruzgan in Southern Afghanistan.

A man from the Hazaran triple in Bamiyan Afghanistan

An Afghan child in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan

A timelapse video of the buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban.

The tractor of East Asia, an Afghan donkey hauls a load of supplies in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

An Afghan Soldier prepares to go on patrol in Uruzgan

A local man walks along the road past brown almond fields

A Bamiyan shop keeper makes a traditional bread called Bolani in the central Afghanistan province in Afghanistan.

A US soldier on patrol with the Swedish led forces in Mazar-e-Sharif

An officer of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) mans a vehicle mounted 50 Calibre machine gun in the central district of Bamyan (Bamiyan, Bamain)

An Afghan child in the troubled province of Logar