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Life and war in Afghanistan: October 2011 Ten years since the war began, security forces continue to fight in Afghanistan as Afghans go about their daily lives.
Oct. 24, 2011
Spec. Keneth Horton from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off," Charlie Company 4-101 Aviation Regiment plays guitar in Forward Operating Base Dwyer in southern Helmand province. A decade into the war, U.S. troops on the ground complain that Afghan forces are still over-reliant on them and fail to take initiative.
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Oct. 23, 2011
Abdul Hanan, 25, left, works making kebabs at a restaurant in Kabul.
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Oct. 24, 2011
Young Afghan boy Ziya, 5, poses with a tray of eggs as he waits for customers on a street in Kabul. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor with some of the lowest standards of living in the world.
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Oct. 23, 2011
French Foreign Legion soldiers from the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment greet one another during a ceremony to mark their return from Afghanistan at Camp Raffali on the island of Corsica. The first 200 French soldiers left Afghanistan four days earlier, kick-starting troop withdrawals announced three months ago as part of NATO plans to wind down its combat mission by 2014.
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Oct. 22, 2011
An Afghan pedestrian crosses a street during a storm in Kabul. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor.
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Oct. 21, 2011
U.S. Sgt. Sara Nichols from the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Thunder, checks the tail rotor blades of a Black Hawk medevac helicopter at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.
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Oct. 20, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, leave after a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. Clinton held talks with the Afghan president in Kabul, pushing diplomatic moves ahead of international conferences aimed at ending the 10-year war.
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Oct. 17, 2011
U.S. Flight Medic, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Lemons, right, from the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Thunder, comforts a blindfolded Afghan civilian cook, Salman Gowhar, in an ambulance on the way to the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital at Camp Hero, after airlifting him from the Khakriz village in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Gowhar was injured by steam blown into his face and eyes while cooking in his village.
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Oct. 17, 2011
Addicts smoke heroin in a destroyed building in Herat City, Afghanistan. Ten years after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to drive the Taliban from power, Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the world’s illegal opium, funding much of the militia’s insurgency despite an expensive Western eradication program. Afghan authorities have been trying to rid the country of illicit opium production, with help from its international allies.
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Oct. 17, 2011
Afghan men change currency from money traders on a street in Kabul.
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Oct. 17, 2011
A newborn baby rests in an incubator in a maternity ward in the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul. Restive Afghanistan, with a population of more than 29 million people, is one of the worst places in the world to be pregnant. Estimates show that one woman dies every 30 minutes from complications relating to pregnancy, according to a UNICEF report.
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Oct. 17, 2011
The Qala Iktyaruddin Citadel, which dates to Alexander the Great, has been restored. The citadel, a fortress that resembles a sand castle overlooking the city of Herat, and a new museum of artifacts at the site was completed by hundreds of local craftsmen and funding and support from the U.S. and German governments and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
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Oct. 16, 2011
An Afghan woman walks past a cobbler at a market in Kabul.
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Oct. 13, 2011
Afghan riot police block the way as protesters, not pictured, attend a demonstration in Kabul against Pakistan's interference in Afghanistan.
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Oct. 14, 2011
An Afghan boy pushes a cart carrying a sick sheep in a neighborhood in Kabul.
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Oct. 17, 2011
Afghan drug addicts gather for a hit of opium and heroin in a corner on a roadside in Kabul.
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Oct. 12, 2010
Workers excavate a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery in Mes Aynak, south of Kabul. The archaeological dig is at the world's second-biggest unexploited copper mine.
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Oct. 11, 2011
Internally displaced Afghan girls walk through a camp in Kabul. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor.
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Oct. 6, 2011
About 200 people demonstrated in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, chanting anti-American slogans ahead of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Oct. 6, 2011
Afghan protesters in Kabul hold placards as they shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration ahead of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. About 200 people demonstrated in Afghanistan's capital. The protesters shouted "death to America and its Afghan puppets" and torched a flag of the United States at the end of their peaceful march through the city center, an AFP reporter at the scene said.
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Oct. 5, 2011
An Afghan boy looks on as U.S. Army soldiers pass by during a mission in the Turkham Nangarhar region.
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Oct. 5, 2011
A man walks along the road in Turkham, a border crossing town in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
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Oct. 5, 2011
Afghan men from the Jamiyat Islami party carry posters of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani as they shout anti-Pakistan slogans during a rally in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Afghan day laborers work at a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul.
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Oct. 5, 2011
An Afghan woman police student takes notes during a criminal investigation class at the Police Academy in Kabul.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Boys play soccer in a makeshift field in the Sherpur area of Kabul. Among the homes of the poor, newly rich warlords-cum-ministers, who made their fortunes by taking over the security business, built expensive multistory mansions in the neighborhood.
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Oct. 1, 2011
AP special regional correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan Kathy Gannon sits with girls at a school in Kandahar.
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Oct. 3, 2011
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Christian Gehrels, center, and his interpreter talk with local Afghans in eastern Paktika province. U.S. Army and Afghan National Army soldiers are trying to persuade local elders to attend a weekly shura council at their base.
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Oct. 3, 2011
An Afghan laborer works at a construction site in Kabul. According to a recent report from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, about 42 percent of people are unemployed in Afghanistan and 36 percent have a daily income of less than 50 Afghanis (about $1).
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Oct. 3, 2011
A U.S. soldier from the HHB 3-7 Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Bct 25th ID patrols as an Afghan girl walks past in Turkham Nangarhar, Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan.
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Oct. 3, 2011
A young girl looks out through a car window as she sits next to a burqa-clad woman in Kabul. Ten years after the Taliban were toppled, most of Afghan women continue wearing burqas.
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Oct. 3, 2011
An Afghan girl watches a patrol by U.S. soldiers from the HHB 3-7 Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Bct 25th ID in Turkham Nangarhar, Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan.
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Oct. 2, 2011
Jose Calzada from U.S. Army HHB 3-7 Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Bct 25th ID stands guard in a street during a mission as Afghan women walk by, in Turkham Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
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Oct. 2, 2011
Afghan boys look on as soldiers from U.S. Army HHB 3-7 Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Bct 25th ID patrol in a street during a mission in Turkham Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
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Oct. 1, 2011
An Afghan money changer counts U.S. dollars on a street in Kabul. The Afghan currency, the Afghani, is traded at 48 per $1.
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Oct. 2, 2011
Afghan demonstrators shout anti-Pakistani slogans during a protest in Kabul. Hundreds of protesters rallied in Afghanistan's capital to protest against the alleged shelling of Afghan territory by Pakistani security forces along the border between the two South Asian neighbors.
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Oct. 2, 2011
An Afghan vendor waits for customers at a computer shop in Kabul. Afghanistan, its neighbors and supporters are launching a drive to boost prosperity and peace by linking the country with markets across South Asia and Central Asia, U.S. officials said.
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Oct. 3, 2011
Afghan workers package fruit juice at a food processing factory in Kabul.
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