Second Place
Oleg Nikishin
Getty Images / TIME Magazine
"Battle Rages for Mazar-e-Sharif"
A Northern Alliance fighter uses a body as a shield during a battle with pro-Taliban forces November 27, 2001 in a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance, helped by U.S. and British special operation forces, claimed to have quashed an uprising by captured Taliban fighters after a third day of heavy fighting around the fortress prison.
