Last year more than 3,400 civilians were killed in Afghanistan. The Taliban were responsible for almost half of those deaths.

Afghan forces and the US were responsible for 43 percent - with last year seeing a record-high level of civilian casualties from air raids, mostly by international forces.

Fortunately, it has been an unusually quiet week in Kabul, where bombs and bullets have been a mainstay for years, but the deal signed in Doha still has a long way to go before real peace can be achieved.

Al Jazeera’s Laura Burdon-Manley takes a look back at the high cost of the war on civilians.