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Photograph by Justin Fantl for this week’s issue of TIME, illustrating the story Growing Pains. (which was then later turned into this lovely GIF)

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TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev has traveled on assignment to Afghanistan and Iraq countless times in the past 15 years, documenting just about every aspect of America’s on-going wars. His most recent assignment this past January took him to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, where he photographed the U.S. preparations to bring home the men and material of war after more than a decade of fighting.

While editing Kozyrev’s take, TIME’s international picture editor Patrick Witty noticed a similarity between several of the photographs. Looking back through the archive of the photographer’s work, Witty discovered that Kozyrev had made similar images of soldiers awaiting takeoff in a C-17 Globemaster—the plane that will take them out of the combat zone and, eventually, back to the States—in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite being taken almost three years apart, the photographs are visually similar—a subtle reminder that despite changing names, locations and circumstances, the tradition of war itself is a patterned response with a long history.


Above: August 2010:  U.S. soldiers from the Virginia National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment await takeoff as they head home from Camp Adder in Iraq. The unit mobilized in January 2010 and was originally scheduled to serve a 12-month tour of federal active duty.

Below: January 2013: Soldiers from the 101st Airborne and 1st Infantry Divisions await takeoff in the C-17 Globemaster that will take them from Bagram to Manas Airbase in Kyrgyzstan. There, they will await contracted flights home.

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Photo by Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME

A decade has passed since the United States invaded Iraq. To mark the anniversary, we asked 55 photographers to share their images made in Iraq that moved them the most.

“I was in Baghdad with a hundred journalists during “Shock and Awe.” When the operation began on March 21st, the prospect of dropping thousands bombs and missiles was frightening for everyone on the ground. On the first night, in spite of the thunderous explosions not far from the hotel the journalists were staying in, we observed that the weapons were destroying the targets with accuracy. After a week of bombings, it was amazing to witness the Iraqis’ remarkable resilience. Most people continued with their daily lives as bombs continued to fall around them. And of course there were airstrikes where many Iraqi civilians were killed. We were being watched by minders all the time, who gave us access to the events they thought were news: civilians affected by the bombing or a press conference at the Ministry of Information. We were not allowed to go anywhere near the military or the Republican Guard. They wanted us to report their side of the story — we couldn’t just get into the taxi and travel around. It was late afternoon when my colleague, Sergey Loiko of the Los Angeles Times, our minder and I entered one of the oldest cemeteries in Baghdad. We didn’t expect to see people there but there were some families who had brought the bodies of their relatives killed by airstrikes. A worker told us he had been busy all day long.” — Yuri Kozyrev

After the recent death of Hugo Chávez, what awaits the country and his supporters?

The latest issue of TIME International investigates life after Chávez.

(Photograph by Platon)

A History of the World in 90 TIME Covers

Where has the time gone? It was back in March of 1923, that the first issue of TIME hit newsstands. As we celebrate our 90th birthday, a look back at world history as told through 90 memorable cover stories.

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James Nachtwey for TIME

TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey traveled to Mumbai to document the battle against drug-resistant tuberculosis. See the photos here on LightBox.

Pictured: Patients in a TB isolation ward in impoverished Bihar state, which has one of India’s highest infection rates. 

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This Thursday: TIME’s Director of Photography Kira Pollack will discuss the impact of iPhone photography alongside Stephen Mayes, Steph Goralnick and Stephen Wilkes in a panel at the School of Visual Arts Amphitheater.

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Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / Original Image by Kermit Roosevelt / Library of Congress

To commemorate President’s Day, TIME commissioned Swedish photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize portraits of 12 American Presidents from the past 150 years.

Pictured: May 14, 1919. Col. Theodore Roosevelt with a dead elephant at Meru, Kenya.

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Alessio Romenzi for TIME

We are honored to announce that this photograph by Alessio Romenzi, taken for TIME, was awarded first prize in the general news story category for World Press Photo.

14 February 2012 Al-Qusayr, Syria. A child mourns her father, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed by shabiha (government militias) with other two men. Their bodies were abandoned in a main street. The civilian unrest in the Syrian Arab Republic began in March 2011 and continues to affect people, particularly in the most vulnerable segments of the population. At least 60,000 people have been killed since uprising began, according to the United Nations (UN), and the number of Syrian refugees registered by the UN in the Middle East and North Africa has surpassed half a million. The situation continues to deteriorate in villages and cities in the country, leaving people without protection, shelter, food and water and facing fear every day.

See more of the winners on LightBox here.