Images from the Afghan war: Week of March 16, 2011

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

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March 15, 2011

An Afghan youth checks books and text books damaged during a bomb blast at a school in Behsud, Nangarhar province. Government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai says an explosion inside a school in the Behsud district killed principal Bahram Khail Salehi and wounded another school employee as children were arriving for classes.

Rahmat Gul / AP

March 13, 2011

A child receives a vaccination during a polio eradication campaign at a health clinic in Jalalabad. Around 7.8 million Afghan children under age five are set to be vaccinated in a three day polio vaccination drive, launched by the Afghan Health Ministry with the cooperation of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.

Rahmat Gul / AP

March 13, 2011

Girls from Alauddin Orphanage celebrate after scoring a goal during a soccer tournament in Kabul.

Dar Yasin / AP

March 15, 2011

A man rests on his push cart, as he waits to be hired in Kabul.

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

March 15, 2011

A street vendor selling used clothes and other items waits for customers in Kabul,

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

March 15, 2011

Medea Benjamin of CodePink, center, holds up signs behind Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, left, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the situation in Afghanistan.

/ AP

March 14, 2011

A transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Daehan Park sits on a loader during a prayer at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Park, 36, of Watertown, Conn., died March 12, 2011, in Wardak province of injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.

Steve Ruark / AP

March 14, 2011

Patricia Weaver, center is comforted by Chief Warrant Officer Wesley Norris, right, and family members of Army Sgt. Jason Weaver from Anaheim, Calif., at a Hero Welcome and and Memorial Service at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, Calif. Weaver died March 3, 2011 in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.

Nick Ut / AP

March 15, 2011

An American flag is folded over the casket of Marine Cpl. Johnathan W. Taylor, of Homosassa, Fla., during his funeral service at Arlington Cemetery. Taylor died in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

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