The Defense Department accidentally reposted over one thousand photos from the Afghanistan War that had been taken offline in 2021 to hide the identity of Afghans working with U.S. troops.

The photos, a defense spokesperson said, have now been taken down again after they were inadvertently published during a recent data migration between computer systems.

Months after the Taliban overran Kabul in late 2021, the Pentagon announced that it had removed more than 120,000 photos and 17,000 videos of the Afghanistan War from the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS. A publicly accessible website is a vast online archive of photos and videos produced by military photographers and public affairs troops, including many thousands of images of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, often

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