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Life and war in Afghanistan: April 2012 Our continuing photo coverage shows Afghan life as coalition forces fight in the country.
An Afghan army soldier holds a rose and a rifle in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan April 26, 2012. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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An Afghan child receives polio drops in Jalalabad province April 22, 2012. REUTERS/Parwiz (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)
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A firefighter sprays water on a burning fuel tanker in Kabul April 23, 2012. The cause of the blaze is unknown and police are investigating. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY)
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April 19, 2012
An Afghan man sits in a restaurant near the Kabul river in the old city of Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 19, 2012
Pedestrians walk over a footbridge across the Kabul river in the old city of Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 11, 2012
Afghan Special Forces participate in a night raid training exercise in Kabul.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
April 11, 2012
An Afghan Special Forces member participates in a night raid training exercise in Kabul. Despite losing the element of surprise with the entry, Afghanistan's new elite soldiers insist they will be no less effective in countering insurgents than controversial night raids by U.S. forces.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
April 11, 2012
Disabled Afghan men exercise with their prosthetic legs at the Orthopedic Center of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kabul. The free-of-charge centres log some 6,000 new patients every year, all of them Afghans. Of those, 1,000 are direct victims of war, many grievously wounded by the heightened potency of bombs.
Omar Sobhani
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Reuters
April 14, 2012
An Afghan amputee trains with his prosthesis at one of the ICRC hospitals for war victims and the disabled in Kabul. The ICRC orthopedic project, which began in 1988 in Kabul, now has seven centres in various Afghan provinces.
Johannes Eisele
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April 12, 2012
An Afghan youth carries a tire to be used as a flotation device while fishing in the Kabul river in Surobi district.
Johannes Eisele
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April 13, 2012
An Afghan child walks with a toy gun in Kabul. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country.
Bay Ismoyo
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April 12, 2012
An Afghan farmer cuts wheat in Surobi district.
Johannes Eisele
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April 13, 2012
An Afghan man on horseback is silhouetted at Nader Khan hill in Kabul.
Bay Ismoyo
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April 13, 2012
An Afghan child sells a kite at Nader Khan hill in Kabul.
Bay Ismoyo
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April 16, 2012
Afghan policemen are mirrored in a broken window as they stand guard outside the building where Taliban fighters launched an attack in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 16, 2012
An Afghan policemen stands guard at the Qala Ikhtyaruddin citadel in the old city of Herat. The citadel, one of the oldest structures in the city's historic center, includes battlements and towers that survive today date from the early 14th century, when the fortress was built following its destruction by Mongol invaders, according to UNESCO.
Aref Karimi
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April 18, 2012
An Afghan man performs a stunt during a freestyle motocross event in the western city of Herat. The event was the second of its kind held in Afghanistan.
Aref Karimi
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April 16, 2012
The Musalla Complex, also known as Prayer Ground in Arabic, sits in the old city of Herat. The tops of the minarets were destroyed by artillery fire in 1863 and the site was dynamited by the British in 1885 to create a clear line of fire against the Russian advance into the city. In 2001, the Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage completed emergency conservation works on the site.
Aref Karimi
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April 18, 2012
An elderly Afghan man stands next to children playing on a roundabout at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 18, 2012
A vendor sells goldfish along a street in the Wazir Akbar Khan district in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 18, 2012
An Afghan girl drinks water at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 18, 2012
An Afghan boy walks past a red door at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 17, 2012
An Afghan boy pretends to box at a graveyard in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 19, 2012
Afghan National Police personnel wear garlands during their graduation ceremony in Jalalabad. The event came on the same day that Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for an "accelerated" transition of security responsibilities from NATO forces in the wake of a scandal over U.S. troops abusing Afghan corpses.
Noorullah Shirzada
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April 5, 2012
An Afghan horseman rides at sunset beside Qargha Lake in Kabul. Horsemen and their steeds have long been a part of life in Afghanistan — most notably in the game of Buzkashi, during which teams of riders compete to throw an animal carcass into a circle.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
April 5, 2012
An ice cream vendor rides his cart along a street in Jalalabad province.
Parwiz
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Reuters
April 10, 2012
An Afghan boy carries a sheep on his shoulders on the outskirts of Herat.
Aref Karimi
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April 5, 2012
An Afghan shepherd guides his herd of sheep in Kabul.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
April 9, 2012
An Afghan boy walks with his cow at sunset in Mazar-e Sharif. Agriculture has traditionally driven the Central Asian nation's economy, with wheat and cereal production being mainstays and quality fruits, especially pomegranates, apricots, grapes, melons and mulberries being exported to many countries.
Qais Usyan
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April 3, 2012
An Afghan miner walks with his donkey outside a coal mine in Samangan province, north of Kabul. Afghanistan is believed to have mineral reserves worth as much as $3 trillion.
Qais Usyan
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April 3, 2012
An Afghan miner works inside a coal mine in Samangan province, north of Kabul. The mineral reserves could theoretically generate billions of dollars in tax revenue for the troubled country.
Qais Usyan
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April 10, 2012
A young Afghan girl plays on swings near the Kart-e-sakhi shrine in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 11, 2012
A man opens the curtains to an electronics shop in the city of Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 5, 2012
Three Afghan men walk down a hill in the evening light in Kabul. Once a strategic point on the ancient Silk Road, the capital’s location in the shadow of the Hindu Kush mountain range has made it a population center since the second century A.D.
Johannes Eisele
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April 11, 2012
An Afghan man plays billiards at a club in Kabul. Games such as snooker and pool, which were banned under the Taliban, are seeing an increase in popularity in Afghanistan.
Johannes Eisele
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April 6, 2012
Afghan men play football in a field near the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul. Nestled beneath the mountains that ring Kabul, the shattered shell of the palace stands in mute testimony to Afghanistan's history of conflict.
Johannes Eisele
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April 6, 2012
An Afghan boy leaps on his bike near the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul.
Johannes Eisele
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April 5, 2012
Young Afghan women use an umbrella to shield themselves from the sun as they walk up some stairs in Kabul. The position of women in Afghanistan has improved dramatically since the fall of the Taliban, with the number of girls in education soaring.
Johannes Eisele
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April 6, 2012
An Afghan woman carries a basket on her head as she walks up a hill in Kabul. As the Americans and the Afghan government have pursued peace efforts with the Taliban, women are increasingly concerned that gains in their rights might be compromised in a bid to end the costly and deadly war.
Johannes Eisele
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April 8, 2012
A boy exercises on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul.
Mohammad Ismail
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Reuters
April 2, 2012
A German soldier keeps watch during a patrol near Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province. Germany is the third-biggest supplier of troops to the 130,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force after the United States and Britain.
Johannes Eisele
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April 3, 2012
An Afghan shoemaker sits on the ground as he listens to a radio on a street in Kabul.
Massoud Hossaini
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April 2, 2012
Laborers work at a brick factory in Surkhroad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul.
Rahmat Gul
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AP
April 1, 2012
An Afghan man picks through garbage on the banks of a river in Kabul.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
April 1, 2012
Afghan girls walk home after school in downtown Kabul.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
April 2, 2012
A burqa-clad woman sits with her son, injured in a bomb blast, at a hospital in New Baghlan, north of Kabul. The provincial governor says twin bomb blasts near a market selling computer equipment wounded 23 people, including eight police officers.
Javid Dahsabzi
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AP
April 2, 2012
An Afghan street vendor passes a building, damaged during the 1990s civil war, as he carries a sack containing used clothes to sell in Kabul.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
April 3, 2012
An Afghan laborer transports goods with his wheelbarrow in Kabul.
Massoud Hossaini
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AFP/Getty Images
April 3, 2012
Afghan wrestlers compete during the annual selection of athletes for the national team in Kabul.
Omar Sobhani
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Reuters
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