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Images from Afghanistan: August 2011 Continued photo coverage of life and war in Afghanistan.
Aug. 26, 2011
Afghan children wave Palestinian flags as they mark al-Quds Day or Jerusalem Day in Kabul. The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared the last Friday of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan as al-Quds Day, a day of protest against Israel’s control of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the third holiest site in Islam after the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina.
Dar Yasin
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Aug. 26, 2011
U.S. Marine Cpl. Matt Myers from Broomfield, Colo., sits on his cot and looks through a care package after the arrival of mail to his platoon's outpost in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The Marines living in austere conditions at PB-302 exchange fire regularly with Taliban militants, who attack from multiple directions.
Brennan Linsley
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AP
Aug. 30, 2011
Afghan women beg for alms outside a mosque in Kabul.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Aug. 30, 2011
An Afghan police officer patrols as Muslims in Kabul pray during Eid al-Fitr, a three-day celebration of the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Aug. 30, 2011
An Afghan boy offers prayers during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Aug. 30, 2011
Afghan boys play with toy guns on a street in Kabul.
Ahmad Nazar
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AP
Aug. 28, 2011
Afghans make Jalebi, a Persian dessert of deep-fried batter soaked in syrup, at a market in Jalalabad, east of Kabul.
Rahmat Gul
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AP
Aug. 27, 2011
Afghan men walk past a U.S. soldier to attend a meeting in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Abdul Khaleq
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AP
Aug. 28, 2011
Afghan refugee children in Kabul wait to receive food donated by Afghan police.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
Aug. 27, 2011
A U.S. Army F-15 fighter jet fires flares after bombing Taliban insurgent positions in the eastern Afghanistan Naray district of Kunar province near the Pakistan border.
Nikola Solic
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Reuters
Aug. 28, 2011
Smoke rises over the mountain after U.S. F-15 fighter jets dropped a bomb on Taliban insurgent positions in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province near the Pakistan border.
Nikola Solic
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Reuters
Aug. 27, 2011
An Afghan police officer removes a destroyed bicycle from the site of a suicide blast in Helmand province. Four civilians were killed and 21 others, including many Afghan security forces, were wounded by a car bomb blast in the capital of southern Helmand province, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Abdul Malik
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Reuters
Aug. 27, 2011
U.S. Army Spc. Charles Atkins instructs a man entering Afghanistan to open his eyes wide for a retina scan while recording biometric data at the border crossing with Pakistan in Torkham, Afghanistan. The port of entry is the busiest in Afghanistan, and the most important for the U.S. military, which imports more than 30 percent of all its supplies and military equipment through Torkham.
John Moore
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Aug. 27, 2011
A freed Afghan woman prisoner, along with her son, leave the Nangarhar Prison in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul. Around 38 Afghan prisoners were released based on the decree of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, honoring the 92nd Afghan independence day.
Rahmat Gul
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AP
Aug. 26, 2011
An Afghan porter leads his donkey past fire extinguishers near the helicopter landing pad at Forward Operating Base Torkham in Torkham, Afghanistan. Almost 10 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. has more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, and is expected to spend some $120 billion on the Afghan war effort in 2011.
John Moore
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Aug. 26, 2011
An aerial view shows an Afghan man on a street with a wheelbarrow near the village of Pasab, west of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Johannes Eisele
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Aug. 26, 2011
Afghan women hold up placards during a demonstration for al-Quds Day in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel and the U.S. in Kabul.
Massoud Hossaini
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 26, 2011
A tattered Afghan flag is flown at a Forward Operating Base west of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Johannes Eisele
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Aug. 24, 2011
An Afghan police officer attends a graduation ceremony at a police training center in Herat, Afghanistan, where 250 officers graduated after eight weeks of training.
Aref Karimi
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2011
Residents arrive to collect fuel from bullet-ridden NATO supply oil tankers following an attack by gunmen on the main highway at Kolpur village, south of Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province in Pakistan.
Banaras Khan
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 24, 2011
Pilot in charge Chris Morisoli finishes the log book for the medevac of the 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder after a mission at Forward Operating Base Pasab. All foreign combat troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 in a process that started in July and will require the Afghan army and police to play an ever-greater role in fighting the Taliban insurgency.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2011
A resident fills a jerrycan with fuel from a bullet-ridden NATO supply oil tanker.
Banaras Khan
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Aug. 26, 2011
A bunker to take cover from incoming Taliban attacks sits at the ready at FOB Torkham.
John Moore
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Aug. 23, 2011
U.S. soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter from the 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder to Kandahar Hospital. Three soldiers were wounded while their vehicle was destroyed up by a roadside bomb.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2011
A father watches his injured son receive medical attention from U.S. Army Medic Joshua Nash, left, and Stephan Flynn, right, as they land at the Kandahar hospital. According to the U.N., insurgents are responsible for 80 percent of civilian casualties, with 14 percent caused by NATO and Afghan forces and the rest unknown.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2011
An elderly Afghan woman rides a donkey on her way home in Herat province, west of Kabul.
Hoshang Hashimi
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AP
Aug. 14, 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks to students who will be sent to India and Turkey for their education. The Taliban banned women from being educated or working during their brutal 1996-2001 rule and continue to attack schools and teachers as part of their campaign against Afghanistan's Western-backed government.
Shah Marai
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Aug. 12, 2011
An Afghan National Police officer carrying a rifle guards a joint U.S.-Afghan combat outpost located in Makuan’s village "Green Zone" in Kandahar province. Coalition forces have identified the Green Zone, which runs along the Arghandab River and Highway 1, as an area where Taliban insurgents use the agriculture and thick vegetation to plant land mines, launch attacks and cover their bomb-making facilities.
Romeo Gacad
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Aug. 13, 2011
Afghan families in Kabul wait for food donations from Turkish soldiers, who are part of the International Security Assistance Force, during the holy month of Ramadan.
Massoud Hossaini
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 10, 2011
Afghan National Army soldiers take their position inside the compound of the Mullah Omar mosque during a patrol with U.S. troops from the Battle Co., 1-32 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team in Sangsar village in Kandahar province, the heartland of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. U.S. troops under Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force are trying to expand their control in areas that are in the stronghold of Taliban insurgents. U.S. troops have set up combat outposts in the area where Mullah Omar, the Taliban spiritual leader, formerly lived and preached.
Romeo Gacad
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Aug. 10, 2011
Members of Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand at a cemetery near the site where a CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. troops crashed, killing 38, including 30 U.S. soldiers, at the remote Tangi Valley in Wardak province, west of Kabul. The Taliban insurgents who shot down the helicopter have been hunted down and killed in an air strike, a U.S. commander said. But the insurgent leader, who was the target of the original operation in which the Americans perished, remains at large, said Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.
Strdel
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 10, 2011
U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team deliver two sheep to Combat Outpost Sangsar in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province. The sheep will be slaughtered for troops in the Afghan National Army for a Ramadan celebration. U.S. troops have trained Afghan security forces in their fight against Taliban insurgents.
Romeo Gacad
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 10, 2011
Afghani money changers count Afghani bank notes at the exchange market in downtown Kabul. The Afghan Afghani currently stands at 47.1 against the U.S. dollar, and 0.550 against the Pakistani rupee. An unprecedented ratings downgrade followed days of heavy losses in stock markets around the world, as investor confidence was hampered by fears of the U.S. economy’s strength and a warning that the euro zone debt crisis had likely spread.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 10, 2011
Afghan boys play volleyball in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan. Islam's holy month of Ramadan is calculated on the sighting of the new moon, when devout Muslims all over the world fast from dawn to dusk during the month.
Qais Usyan
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 7, 2011
An Afghan boy holds a freshly harvested pomegranate at a farm in Kandalay village in southern Kandahar province, a former stronghold of Taliban insurgents.
Romeo Gacad
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2011
A U.S. soldier, Capt. Max Ferguson, plays with Afghan children during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers at Kandalay village in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
Romeo Gacad
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2011
Afghan men shout anti-government slogans as car tires are set on fire during a riot in Kabul. Around 200 Afghans burned tires and blocked key roads near the presidential palace in protest after bodyguards of a lawmaker allegedly killed at least one person over a land dispute. The unrest flared just southeast of the Afghan capital Kabul when members of the Kuchi nomadic tribe clashed with guards working for the lawmaker.
Massoud Hossaini
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2011
An Afghan National Army soldier guards a suspected Taliban detainee at the Combat Outpost Kandalay in southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
Romeo Gacad
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2011
An Afghan girl greets a joint patrol of U.S. troops and Afghan National Army soldiers at Kandalay village in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
Romeo Gacad
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Aug. 8, 2011
Sayed Mohammad Nabi, a 42-year-old farmer from Kalakan village, shows off grape vines in the Shomali Plain north of Kabul, during the grape harvest.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 7, 2011
Afghan men make sweets in a shop in Kabul during the holy month of Ramadan.
Majid Saeedi
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Getty Images
Aug. 8, 2011
An elderly Afghan man who lost his leg during the civil war walks in the Shomali Plain north of Kabul.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 4, 2011
Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky., board a plane at Forward Operating Base Sharana, Paktika province as they begin their journey home after a year-long deployment.
David Goldman
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AP
Aug. 4, 2011
On the outskirts of Kandahar city, an Afghan National Army soldier carries an injured boy to a Medevac helicopter.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
U.S. Army flight medic Spc. Daniel Denison waits for injured children.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
U.S. Army flight crew chief Sgt. Wesley Price tends to a wounded man after an attack in Kandahar.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Aug. 5, 2011
A fruit vendor sits by his stand, stocked with melons, as he waits for customers in Kabul.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Aug. 4, 2011
A visitor to the Kabul Museum touches an ancient sculpture on display. The sculpture was among a collection of works destroyed by the Taliban and then restored.
Majid Saeedi
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Getty Images
Aug. 4, 2011
A girl prepares to break her Ramadan fast at a charity food point set up by the Afghanistan Red Crescent in Jalalabad .
Rahmat Gul
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AP
Aug. 4, 2011
U.S. and Afghan National Army soldiers conduct a joint security dawn patrol in the center of the village of Kandalay. The 140,000 strong U.S.-dominated international military force in Afghanistan is engaged in a massive drive to train Afghan police and military personnel to take over before all foreign combat troops leave the country in 2014.
Romeo Gacad
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 4, 2011
An Afghan man carries his belongings as he passes by burning fuel tankers on the outskirts of Kabul. Police said around five fuel tankers carrying fuel for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan caught fire inside a depot in Kabul. No casualties were reported, and it was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Aug. 4, 2011
An Afghan man looks at an ancient statue on display in the Kabul Museum. The sculptures, which had been destroyed by Islamists during the Taliban regime, were repaired after the collapse of the hard-line Islamist movement in 2001.
Majid Saeedi
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Getty Images
Aug. 4, 2011
Hazara Afghan day laborers take a nap as they wait for job opportunities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Kabul.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 3, 2011
An Afghan man selling postcards waits for customers at his roadside shop in Kabul.
Omar Sobhani
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Aug. 2, 2011
An Afghan shepherd walks with his herd of goats near Bagram, right next to the Bagram Airfield, a U.S. military airport and housing complex.
Omar Sobhani
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Reuters
Aug. 1, 2011
An Afghan girl looks up after receiving food on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in a poor neighborhood of Kabul. Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Aug. 3, 2011
An Afghan man prays outside of a mosque on the third day of the holy month of Ramadan in Kabul.
Dar Yasin
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AP
Aug. 3, 2011
Chief Warrant Officer Nick Stevenson reads a book at Forward Operating Base Wilson on the outskirts of Kandahar.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
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