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Life and war in Afghanistan: November 2012 Photos of everyday life in Afghanistan as coalition forces attempt to transfer responsibilities to Afghan troops.
Nov. 25, 2012
A worker prepares traditional sweets at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The economy of Afghanistan can be categorized as poor and unstable, as it lacks proper industrialization and there is a lack of well-developed manufacturing and infrastructure facilities; it is also dependent on foreign aid and assistance.
Noorullah Shirzada
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AFP/Getty Images
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Nov. 25, 2012
A worker prepares traditional sweets at a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad.
Noorullah Shirzada
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 24, 2012
A woman begs with two children in a street in Herat, Afghanistan. The Afghan economy has always been based on agriculture, despite the fact that only 13 percent of its total land is arable and just eight percent is currently cultivated.
Aref Karimi
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Nov. 25, 2012
Afghans watch cockfighting on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Cockfighting is a popular game in Afghanistan during the winter.
Rahmat Gul
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AP
Nov. 30, 2012
A fighting dog lies on the ground as two Afghan policemen walk past during the weekly dogfights on the outskirts of Kabul . Dogfighting is held in vacant lots and though betting is done, matches are stopped as soon as one dog shows absolute domination. Dogfighting was banned during the Taliban regime.
Massoud Hossaini
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 3, 2012
Afghan women sit in a class and study using cellphones in Kabul. Afghanistan has launched a new literacy program that enables women, mostly deprived of basic education during decades of war, to learn to read and write using a cellphone. The phone is called Ustad Mobile (Mobile Teacher) and provides national curriculum courses in both national languages, Dari and Pashto, as well as mathematics.
Jawad Jalali
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 14, 2012
A family arrives to wash their clothes along the banks of Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
Oct. 18, 2012
Members of Afghanistan's elite Civil Order Police line up for prayers inside a cavernous dome-shaped building constructed by U.S. contractors to house the 3rd Battalion at their base in Marjah, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. As the U.S. and NATO close out their mission in Afghanistan, preparing for the final withdrawal of combat troops by the end of 2014, the worry looms large that fresh outbursts of ethnic fighting might send the country into a spiral of chaos and violence.
Anja Niedringhaus
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AP
Nov. 14, 2012
A Pashtun boy, who said he was forced from the troubled province of Baglan due to threats from the Taliban, looks on as he winds up for the day after scavenging for recyclable items at a garbage dump in Kabul. Children working at the site said they can make up to 90 afghanis ( $1.75) per day collecting cans and other recyclable materials for sale. If they instead stayed and worked in their home province, they would have limited options for employment. And if they joined the police or army, the Taliban threatened they would come for them and their families, they said.
Daniel Berehulak
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Oct. 19, 2012
A member of Afghanistan's elite Civil Order Police grabs his helmet to head out for another patrol after having lunch at his base in Marjah, in Helmand province.
Anja Niedringhaus
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AP
Oct. 21, 2012
Members of Afghanistan's elite Civil Order Police stand together during a patrol in Marjah.
Anja Niedringhaus
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AP
Nov. 15, 2012
Afghan street vendor Abdul Salam, 83, makes tea as he waits for customers in Kabul. A majority of Afghans believe their country is moving in the right direction, but insecurity, unemployment and corruption remain major problems, according to a survey by the San Francisco-based Asia Foundation released on Nov. 14. More than half of those polled, 52 percent, were optimistic, up from 46 percent last year, while 31 percent said the country was moving in the wrong direction.
Shah Marai
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Nov. 15, 2012
A burqa-clad woman walks through Kabul.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
Afghan National Army cadets secure the perimeter as smoke bombs, signifying detonated roadside bombs, cover the area during a military exercise, overseen by French and Canadian soldiers, at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul. The Afghan army, with approximately 195,000 soldiers, is experiencing difficult times, as about a third of the army is lost each year to desertion and low reenlistment rates, according to news reports. Deserters offer numerous reasons for leaving before their service is over: corruption, poor food and equipment, and Taliban intimidation of their families.
Daniel Berehulak
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Getty Images
Nov. 15, 2012
Afghan men work at a brick factory in the Nangarhar district, east of Kabul. Men work at the factory 8 hours a day for about $9.
Rahmat Gul
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AP
Nov. 15, 2012
An Afghan man displays one of his prize fighting cocks at the Ka Faroshi Bird Market in the Old City in Kabul. The Ka Faroshi Bird Market is a narrow lane-way tucked away behind the Pul-e Khishti mosque that is lined with stalls selling birds by the dozen.
Daniel Berehulak
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Nov. 15, 2012
An Afghan man transfers fighting cocks from one cage to another at the Ka Faroshi Bird Market in the Old City in Kabul. Unique to the market is the kowk, or fighting partridge, which are prized by their owners, who lavish great care on them, and are kept in domed wicker cages. The owners have the birds fight each other on Friday mornings in short bouts of strength as the birds are too valuable to allow them to be seriously harmed. Spectators gambling on the results.
Daniel Berehulak
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Getty Images
Nov. 15, 2012
An Afghan woman and her daughter walk through a cemetery in Kabul.
Adnan Abidi
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
A young garbage collector plays with a toy a gun at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Kabul.
Adnan Abidi
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Reuters
Nov. 15, 2012
A young garbage collector covers his face with a barrel at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Kabul.
Adnan Abidi
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Reuters
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