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Life and war in Afghanistan: December 2011 Our continuing photo coverage depicts Afghan life as coalition forces fight in the country.
Dec. 14, 2011
Members of the Afghan National Police conduct a patrol with German International Security Assistance Force soldiers, not pictured, near the settlement of Nawabad, Afghanistan.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
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Dec. 14, 2011
Locals lead a camel carrying branches past a soldier in the German International Security Assistance Force near the settlement of Nawabad.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Dec. 16, 2011
Men stand in front of a giant poster of Afghan national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, also known as “The Lion of Panjshir,” while visiting a park overlooking Kabul. Massoud helped drive the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980s, and led the last bastion of resistance to the Taliban in the 1990s before being killed by an al-Qaeda bomb on Sept. 9, 2001
Shah Marai
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Dec. 16, 2011
A German soldier in the International Security Assistance Force gives a tennis ball to a child during a patrol in the village of Isakhel, Afghanistan.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Dec. 16, 2011
A man carrying brushwood walks past German soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force during the solders’ patrol in the village of Isakhel.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2011
A boy stands near a donkey near the northern city of Kunduz, Afghanistan.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2011
Men work on a bridge funded by the Stabilization Program North Afghanistan near the northern city of Kunduz. The program is financed by the German Foreign Ministry with distribution help by the KfW Development Bank and implemented on the ground by the Aga Khan Foundation.
Thomas Peter
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Reuters
April 15, 2011
Village boys gather around a soldier as U.S. Army troops conduct a patrol in a village in the Arghandab valley, north of Kandahar. The lush Arghandab valley in southern Afghanistan was long a Taliban stronghold. The Taliban has lost its grip, local officials say, but the fragile security improvements remain heavily reliant on foreign troops and money. The NATO-led foreign coalition is in the process of handing over control of various regions of Afghanistan to national security forces in preparation for the full departure of combat troops by 2014.
Bob Strong
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2011
Danny Pallares shows off one of his tattoos memorializing his brother, Army Spec. Ronnie J. Pallares, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010, during the "Hometown Heroes" Christmas tree ceremony at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. Family members of 18 Orange County service members who died in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam hung personalized Christmas ornaments on the tree during a special commemoration ceremony honoring fallen service members.
Mindy Schauer
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AP
April 21, 2011
U.S. Army soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division conduct a patrol through a pomegranate orchard near their base at Strongpoint Stansberry in the Arghandab valley, north of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Bob Strong
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Reuters
Dec. 11, 2011
Afghanistan soccer team supporters jeer at Indian team players after India won the final against Afghanistan in the SAFF Championships in New Delhi. India defeated Afghanistan 4-0.
Gurinder Osan
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AP
Dec. 13, 2011
Afghans who are suffering from disabilities perform the Afghan national anthem during a ceremony marking International Disabled Day in Kabul.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
Jan. 28, 2011
An injured woman is escorted out of a supermarket in central Kabul. An explosion there rocked a grocery store frequented by foreigners.
Rahmat Gul
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AP
Dec. 9, 2011
A child kisses a stone on his brother's grave in a cemetery in Kabul. The fallout from a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul further splintered Afghanistan's relations with neighboring Pakistan and set back the U.S.-led military campaign to stabilize the region before international troops leave at the end of 2014.
Ahmad Jamshid
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AP
Dec. 10, 2011
An Afghan soldier stands guard near an aircraft donated by the United States to Afghanistan’s air force in Herat province, west of Kabul. The United States donated 18 helicopters and aircrafts to the Afghan air force to ready them to take control of their security situation by 2014.
Hoshang Hashimi
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AP
Dec. 7, 2011
An Afghan shopkeeper waits for customers at a store in Kabul.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
Dec. 7, 2011
Afghans attend a funeral one day after a suicide bomber killed 56 Shiites and wounded more than 160 others. The attacked targeted worshipers outside a shrine where hundreds had gathered to commemorate the holiday of Ashoura.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
Dec. 7, 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to confront the Pakistani government over a devastating suicide bombing against a Shiite shrine in Kabul. He also said the attack originated in Pakistan, putting further pressure on already strained relations between the two neighbors.
S. Sabawoon
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AP
Dec. 6, 2011
Afghan Shiites beat themselves during a Muharram procession as part of the Ashoura holiday.
Musadeq Sadeq
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AP
Dec. 1, 2011
An Afghan police officer demonstrates his skills during a graduation ceremony in Adreskan, Afghanistan. The process of taking over security from over 130,000-strong NATO-led ISAF forces by Afghan troops will be completed by the end of 2014.
Hoshang Hashimi
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AP
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