Images from Afghanistan — April 2011

Continued photo coverage of the U.S., Afghan and NATO military effort in Afghanistan.

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April 16, 2011

The cook at the Sheik Mati Boys School in Qalat cuts onions in a tent as he prepares dinner for more than 400 students who live at the school.

/ Reuters

April 20, 2011

An Afghan boy collects pieces of an exploded car that was used by a suicide attacker in the Batikut district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul.

Rahmat Gul / AP

April 16, 2011

U.S. Army Sgt. Johnny Hoyos shows off his soccer skills to a student at the Sheik Mati Boys School in Qalat, in this photograph provided by ISAF Regional Command (South). Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Zabul visited the school to assess the dining hall and kitchen for a future renovation project. Hoyos is part of PRT Zabul's security force.

/ Reuters

April 17, 2011

Afghan boys play on a swing near a cemetery in Kabul.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 17, 2011

Afghan children play on a wheel in Kabul.

Denis Sinkayov / Reuters

April 18, 2011

U.S. Army soldiers walk past a poppy field during a patrol through the village of Jelawar in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar.

Bob Strong / Reuters

A farmer listens as an Afghan soldier tells poppy growers they must destroy their fields or face action in the village of Elawar in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar.

Bob Strong / Reuters

April 11, 2011

In this photo provided by ISAF Regional Command (south), Taliban fighters peacefully surrender their arms during a meeting with Afghan government officials as part of the government's peace and reintegration process, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. One hundred Taliban agreed to participate in the peace initiative, in which they will be reintegrated into Afghan society.

/ Reuters

April 19, 2011

U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, talks with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) during a congressional delegation visit in Kabul.

Handout / Getty Images

April 23, 2011

Afghan nursing students from the military institute sit in a class, led by an American teacher at the Davoud Khan military hospital in Kabul. American medics have traveled to Afghanistan to help train 600 nursing students over a period of two years at a medical training center in the Davoud Khan military hospital.

Majid Saeedi / Getty Images

April 4, 2011

Afghan guards of honor attend a changing of command ceremony at a ISAF base in Herat west of Kabul.

/ AP

April 11, 2011

Taliban militants join the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program in Kandahar. About 50 Taliban insurgents, who have fought Afghan and foreign troops for years, have defected to the government in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar, where they hailed Kabul's push for peace and reconciliation.

/ Reuters

April 15, 2011

Afghan girls attend a computer class at the Afghan Women Professional Training center, funded by the Italian Cooperation in Kabul.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

April 11, 2011

Afghani residents of Sher Darwaza in Kabul.

Kamran Jebreili / AP

April 5, 2011

Afghan university students in Kabul carry a verse from the Koran during a demonstration to condemn the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book by a Florida pastor.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

April 4, 2011

U.S. Army pilot CW3 Macke Scott from Company C, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment jogs at Kandahar Airfield, southern Afghanistan.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 6, 2011

U.S. Army chief crew Sgt. 1st Class Vinle Farrell from "Dustoff" team, C Company, 1-214 Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade turns the main rotor of his medevac helicopter after a mission in Helmand province.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 6, 2011

U.S. Army military personnel from "Dustoff" team, C Company, 1-214 Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade play horseshoes at their base at Camp Dwyer in Helmand province.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 6, 2011

U.S. Army pilot CW2 Joe Rogers from "Dustoff" team, C Company, 1-214 Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade works out at his base at Camp Dwyer in Helmand province.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 5, 2011

U.S. Army chief crew SPC Torrell Bryant from "Dustoff" team, C Company, 1-214 Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade leads U.S. Army medics as they transport a policeman from Afghan National Police with a gunshot wound to a hospital at Camp Dwyer in Helmand province.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 3, 2011

U.S. medic Cpl. Breh Schlieve, left, from Arctic Dustoff team, Company C, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment and his Canadian colleagues carry an Afghan National Police member injured in a vehicle crash during a medevac mission outside Kandahar, southern Afghanistan.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 11, 2011

An Afghan Army barber gives a customer a trim at a makeshift barber shop at Combat Outpost Terra Nova in the Arghandab Valley, north of Kandahar.

Bob Strong / Reuters

April 10, 2011

U.S. Army SPC Jeremy Stocks from "Dustoff" team, C Company, 1-214 Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade restores a flagpole that fell in a night sandstorm at Camp Dwayer in Helmand province.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

April 5, 2011

Soldiers carry a transfer case containing the remains of Army 1st Lt. Robert F. Welch III of Denton, Tex., upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Welch was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Jose Luis Magana / AP

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