Photos: The work of Anja Niedringhaus, 1965–2014

Ansam Rahel, 10, displays a head injury she sustained when Israeli troops shelled a U.N. school where she and her family had sought refuge from Gaza fighting in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza strip, January 2009. The photo was taken by AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed in Afghanistan Friday, April 4, 2014. Anja Niedringhaus / AP

Libyans inspect the wreckage of a U.S. F-15 fighter jet after it crashed in an open field in the village of Bu Mariem, east of Benghazi, March 2011. Anja Niedringhaus / AP

Afghan men gather for prayers inside the Eid Gah mosque, one of Afghanistan's largest mosques, in Kandahar, October 2013. The mosque was started by Osama bin Laden and completed after the Taliban were ousted in 2001. Anja Niedringhaus/AP

Photographs of Palestinian lawmakers jailed by Israel lie in the parliament building destroyed during Israel's offensive in Gaza City, January 2009. Anja Niedringhaus / AP

A United States Marine lies on the floor of a medevac helicopter after being injured by an IED near Sangin, Afghanistan, June 2011. Anja Niedringhaus / AP

An Afghan carpet seller holds up a framed carpet depicting Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his store in Kabul, March 30, 2014. Anja Niedringhaus/AP

A German soldier lifts weights at his combat outpost in Char Darah, outside Kunduz, Afghanistan, September 2011. Anja Niedringhaus/AP

An Afghan woman waits in a changing room to try out a new burqa in a shop in Kabul, April 2013. Anja Niedringhaus / AP

An Afghan worker inspects hundreds of shipping containers received by U.S. and NATO troops at a storage yard in Kandahar, October 2013. Anja Niedringhaus/AP

An Afghan drug addict takes refuge against the cold under a woolen shawl as he smokes opium in a foul riverbed in Kabul, November 2013. Anja Niedringhaus / AP

Afghan lawmaker Fatema Aziz from Kunduz poses under an oil painting in the parliament in Kabul, March 26, 2014. Anja Niedringhaus/AP

An Afghan woman holds her newly born baby wrapped in her burqa as she waits to try on a new burqa in a shop in Kabul, April 2013. Anja Niedringhaus/AP

An Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, May 2013. Anja Niedringhaus/AP