A Taliban soldier tests a rowing machine at the Norwegian Embassy in Kabul – still one of many moments in the history books.
Aftenposten found 56 Taliban soldiers at the Norwegian Embassy in Kabul. Taliban leader Amir Muhammad Muhammad tests the Norwegian ambassador’s rowing machine. Photo: Afshin Ismaili
Joy, anger and surprise. Wonder and think. Through the images that we present at Aftenposten, we try to freeze time and explain what is happening to the reader. But when the photo of the pacified Taliban soldiers appeared from Afshin Ismaili, Aftenposten’s commander in Kabul, we were amazed and amazed. Why was this really?
We don’t have all the answers. But when our photojournalists travel to Uppsal, Jotunheimen, Poland or Kabul, we try through the photos to give readers a better understanding of what’s going on.
Are the Taliban just cute guys practicing rowing machines? barely. But this is also part of the reality. The episode at the Norwegian Embassy in Kabul is one of many stories from Afghanistan and the rest of the world that Aftenposten readers shared in 2021.
January 2, 2021: On December 30, 2020, a large, rapid mud landslide occurred in Gerdrum. Ten people lost their lives, and nine houses disappeared in the avalanche. In the following days, rescue teams search and secure the landslide area. Photo: Jan T. espedal
February 16, 2021: At Bærum Sports Park, Bitteba Hjemdal (93) receives her first dose of the coronary artery vaccine. Photo: Stein J. Bjørge
February 25, 2021: Boston, MA, USA: Cellist Casey Murray had planned all year long to tour and act, but due to the pandemic, things were canceled or moved to Zoom. We met her at home in a group. Photo: Nora Savosnick
February 25, 2021: A new round of lockdown due to the Corona situation in Norway. Brothers Maja (11) and Adam Moen Winter (10) and brothers Anton (11) and Hermann (9) Hahnemann Hellsteveit meet for soccer matches at Dælenenga in Oslo. Photo: Ketil Blom Haugstulen
March 7, 2021: Johannes Husfluth Klæbo enters the race with Russian Alexander Bolshunov. Russian breaks staff and wash Klæbo from 5 miles. Emil Iversen (R) finally wins the World Cup gold medal in Oberstdorf, Germany. Photo: Martin Slotemo Lingstad
March 11: She was identified when mascara was dripping with sweaty hair on her forehead. She escaped the terrorist in the movie Utøya from 2018. In March, Andrea Berntzen was related as an ISIS victim in the TV series 2 Abducted. Photo: Stig B. Hansen
March 18, 2021: An X-ray of a Corona patient is in the intensive care unit in the Rikschuspitalt. Photo: Olaf Olsen
May 6, 2021: Mass testing of school students began in the spring of 2021. At the Lakegata School in Oslo, there is a major outbreak of corona, and specialist nurse Karina Slade showed student Frida how the corona test should be carried out. Photo: Jan T. espedal
May 25, 2021: Aftenposten met Corona patient Benti Hueger in Ahos at the end of May. Then she was about to recover. – it was hard. But I decided not to give up, says the pensioner. Photo: Morten Uglom
May 27, 2021: Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Maria Hatab (4 years) from Gaza lost her mother and four siblings in an Israeli bomb attack. She still has her father, Alaa Abu Hatab, 34. Photography: Mohamed Dahman
May 2021: Two people die every week in Oslo with no survivors who can take care of the funeral. We follow Jan on his last journey. Photo: Stig B. Hansen
May 28, 2021: Munch moves from Twain to Bjorvika. But it must first be tested. And on this May evening, an 11 x 5 meter artwork has a rehearsal. Photo: Hans O. Torgersen
June 1, 2021: Ella prison and detention center. The Supreme Court decided to release the convict Viggo Christiansen in Banhia from prison. Here he drives out of prison with his father, Sven Christiansen. Photo: Ketil Blom Haugstulen
June 21, 2021: “Dang” is smuggled into Norway in a box. Six months later, he was arrested on a cannabis plantation. Photo: Morten Uglom
July 4, 2021: Opera Beach opens in Oslo, opening up the opportunity for beach life in the city center. Photo: Jan T. espedal
July 30, 2021: Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Sp) campaigns in Knysna, Nordland, promising to reopen the college. Photo: Christian Breedlade
August 3, 2021: Karsten Warholm wins Olympic gold in the 400-meter hurdles and sets a new world record at the Tokyo Olympics with a time of 45.94 metres. Photo: Martin Slotemo Lingstad
August 14, 2021: In search of like-minded people: Palestinian Lubna Odeh helps her brother find a Palestinian wife. Photo: Monica Stromdahl
August 14, 2021: a diving competition from a 27-meter-high tower outside the Porvika Opera House in Oslo. Alain Cole from Luxembourg is in the air. Photo: Dan P. Neegaard
September 2, 2021: Manhattan, New York. Monica Aiken Murphy, 51, lost her husband Michael Aiken at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He was 37 when he died. Every morning, Iken-Murphy wakes up to a view of Manhattan and the World Trade Center. Photo: Nora Savosnick
September 7, 2021: In March, skier Daniel Andre Tandy survived one of the worst falls in the history of the sport of jumping. Six months later, he was ready to come back with a titanium plate in his collarbone. Photo: Martin Slotemo Lingstad
September 8, 2021: At a private university in Kabul, the fall semester has just begun. Attendance is very limited. A curtain that separates women from men. Photo: Afshin Ismaili
September 11, 2021: Labor leader Jonas Gahr Stoer on the campaign trail in Tromsø. Photo: Pal Oystad
September 13, 2021: Tensions begin when the first election results begin at the Liberal Party’s vigil in central Oslo. Foto: Donation sign
September 13, 2021: The KrF holds an election vigil in Vulkan in Oslo. Parliamentary elections will be the worst since the war. Photo: Jan T. espedal
September 13, 2021: Jonas Gahr Store cheers for the election result at Folkets Hus in Oslo. Photo: Morten Uglom
September 13, 2021: Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg conceded election defeat and left the stage at the Conservative election vigil. Photo: Pal Oystad
September 13, 2021: The six-year-old talks every day with his mother and father in Kabul. He doesn’t know when he will see them again. He is one of the evacuees from Afghanistan who came to Norway after the Taliban took power in the country. Photo: Stig B. Hansen
September 16, 2021: wrestler Felix Balduf after training at the Lambertsetter Multipurpose Hall. Photo: Ketil Blom Haugstulen
16. September 2021: Washington County Rodeo. Texas, USA. Photo: Nora Savosnick
September 17, 2021: Taliban soldiers enjoy their free time in a swan-shaped boat on Lake Qargha outside Kabul. Photo: Afshin Ismaili
September 25, 2021: Setari Jinan (7 months old) suffers from severe acute malnutrition and is treated at Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Photo: Afshin Ismaili
September 25, 2021: One meter disappears and we think the corona is over. A tram full of party-loving people runs above Grünerløkka. Photo: Pal Oystad
September 2021: Every summer, 2.2 million head of cattle are released into farms to make them fat, among more and more cabins. People in the cabin are criticized for being afraid of animals. The peasants are required to be allowed to graze among the people. From the A magazine report on Kvamsfjellet. Photo: Martin Slotemo Lingstad
September 27, 2021: Glaciologist Liss Andreassen arrives in Jotunheimen and measures the thickness of Hellstugubreen. It’s getting smaller and smaller. Photo: Jan T. espedal
October 2021: Judit Mwamba (30 years old) gets shoes from activists in the forested areas between Poland and Belarus. Aftenposten follows refugees and other migrants from Iraq, Cameroon and Congo on a perilous journey to Europe. Photo: Monica Stromdahl
October 2021: The economy collapses and those who can afford it try to travel. The Lebanese pound is one tenth of what it was two years ago. A poor Lebanese move to the old Shatila refugee camp (pictured). Photo: Jan T. espedal
October 12, 2021: During the fall, the number of admissions to Norwegian hospitals rose. Many of them are not corona. Among other things, the number of hospitalized children infected with the RS virus is increasing. Sanaz Urmaz Ferdowsi’s daughter Isabella (10 weeks) was admitted to the pediatric ward of Olivul Hospital. Photo: Dan P. Neegaard
October 12, 2021: Artist Aurora in the Museum Garden, Botanical Garden in Bergen in connection with an interview in A. Photo: Helge Skodvin
October 14, 2021: Handing over the keys to the Cabinet Office. Erna Solberg (left) leaves, and Jonas Gahr Stoer (PT) takes over. Photo: Olaf Olsen
October 15, 2021: Forensic scientists work in an apartment in Kongsberg after five people were killed in an attack in the city. Photo: Tom W. Christiansen
October 15, 2021: Newly appointed Minister of Justice Emily Inger Mehl (Democratic Party) and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store (Labour) visit Kongsberg in connection with the attack that killed five people. Photo: Tom W. Christiansen
October 18, 2021: The government declaration is introduced by Jonah Gahr Store (Labour) in Parliament. Erna Solberg (on the floor) has returned to Parliament as his representative. Photo: Olaf Olsen
October 19, 2021: To make room for coal mine expansion, cities like Lutzerath in western Germany must be moved. The ever-increasing demand for energy means that mines like this are still very much alive. Photo: Morten Uglom
October 20, 2021: Joao Centeio studied at XJTLU outside Shanghai, China. He has been studying at night for a year and a half due to the Corona epidemic and strict entry rules to China. Photo: Siri Overland Eriksen
October 20, 2021: The new Munch Museum opens in Bjorvika. Scream is in place. Photo: Dan P. Neegaard
October 2021: Kristen and her husband give birth to a son through surrogacy in Georgia. But bringing a child home is not so easy. Aftenposten photographer Monica Stromdahl has been following Kristen and her son recently in Georgia and back to Norway. Photo: Monica Stromdahl
October 21, 2021: Josephine Jules Müller is Norway’s best female gymnast (rhythmic gymnastics) with a Royal Cup recently. Photo: Siri Overland Eriksen
2021: Witch Pernille Jensen performs a ritual in her apartment (photo is part of a larger documentary on witches in A magazine). Photo: Tom W. Christiansen
November 2, 2021: Glimpse into normalcy with a full concert hall at the Oumou Sangaré concert in the Rockefeller. Photo: Morten Uglom
November 18, 2021: Parliament Speaker Eva Christine Hansen meets with the press regarding Aftenposten’s revelations about the residence of the occupants of Parliament. Later that day I left. Photo: Ketil Blom Haugstulen
November 22, 2021: Governor Austin Olsen is in the corridors of the Bank of Norway, four months before he is due to resign. Photo: Pal Oystad
November 25, 2021: Eric Lea (65) defends everything and everyone. As long as he survives the flight. From Saturday’s photo at Aftenposten. Photo: Tor G. Stenersen
November 30, 2021: Here, many dreams of Europe collapse. Then one hope remains. In order to succeed, life must be at stake. A group of immigrants and refugees fraternally share a dinner. Photo: Gina Grieg Riisnæs
December 1, 2021: Concert ticket sales plummet after government references to the pandemic. From a concert with chloroform at the Park Theater in Oslo. Photo: Dan P. Neegaard
December 7, 2021: Then the happy gatherings break again. Graduation parties are held with parents outside the fence. Luciatogene is transferred to the school yard. This is the situation in December 2021, as it is here at Trasop School in Oslo. Photo: Jan T. espedal
December 13, 2021: New restrictions and closures just before Christmas, with the omicron variable rising and infection rates reaching new highs. Photo: Stein Bjørge
December 21, 2021: Dr. Anders Dereborg Nielsen rubbed his face. The night shift at Ostfold Hospital was busy and Dereborg Nielsen was tired. Photo: Martin Slotemo Lingstad
By Bond Robertson 
