Photo for today, from 'The graveyard of empires'

Tuesday's best photo: Maj Gen Chris Donahue is the final American service member to depart Afghanistan as he boards a C-17 cargo plane in Kabul. Photograph: Jack Holt/US Central Command/AFP/Getty

Kabul, Afghanistan

Members of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit take up position at the city’s airport after the US pulled its last troops out of the country, ending a 20-year war that started and ended with the hardline Islamist in power