U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines temporarily occupy an abandoned mud walled farm compound in the Nawa district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday, July 10, 2009. Fighting overnight between international troops and Taliban militants in central Afghanistan has left as many as 22 insurgents dead, police said Friday.
The helmets, weapons, dogtags and boots of two fallen U.S. Marines stand at the end of a ceremony in their honor at Camp Bastion, in southern Afghanistan on April 22, 2008. 1st Sgt. Luke Mercardante, 35, of Athens, Ga, and Cpl. Kyle W. Wilks, 24, of Rogers, Ark. died on April 15 when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
An elderly Afghan man visits the tomb of rebel commander Ahmed Shah Masood in Panshir to pay his respects on the 4th anniversary of Masood’s assassination Saturday Sept. 10, 2005.
A boy looks down from a hole in the roof at another on the stairs of a Soviet-built cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan where hundreds of Afghan people, who have returned from years of exile in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, now live Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005. With the first parliamentary elections after a quarter century of war to be held on Sept. 18, denizens of refugees are looking to the vote for a way out of a life of squalid limbo.
An Afghan girl plays with a clothes line where her family lives in a Soviet-built theater in Kabul, Afghanistan where Afghan people, who have returned from years of exile in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, now live Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005. With the first parliamentary elections after a quarter century of war to be held on Sept. 18, denizens of refugees are looking to the vote for a way out of a life of squalid limbo.
Afghan people run away as an Afghan military helicopter crashes in the Panjshir Valley after a memorial ceremony marking the 4th anniversary of rebel commander Ahmad Shah Masood Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005. Two passengers were injured, but no one was killed, in the helicopter which was carrying military and government officials from the memorial events.
Jamila, left, plays on a seesaw with children of other female inmates on the prison yard of Pul-e Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan April 17, 2008. Jamila, age 7, and her mother Najiba who is serving a seven year sentence for adultery, have been in prison for 10 months. There are 226 young children in Afghanistan’s prisons, including many who were born there. They have committed no crime, but they live among the country’s 304 incarcerated women.
(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
