From Afghanistan: April 2013, one of 39 photos. An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a road on a windy day on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 16, 2013. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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From Afghanistan: March 2013, one of 41 photos. Here, a child watches Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces escort a district governor in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on March 17, 2013. (USMC/Sgt. Pete Thibodeau)
March 6, 2013
From Afghanistan, February 2013: Anti-Taliban Militias, one of 16 photos. Farzad Akbari, the 12-year-old son of anti-Taliban militia commander Farhad Akbari, in Afghanistan’s volatile Logar province, host to a large number of armed groups and Taliban crossing over from Pakistan. Farzad’s father is grooming him to take control of the militia should he be killed. “The danger (of the Taliban) is real and it’s important I understand how the world works,” says Farzad. (© Vikram Singh)
February 4, 2013
From Afghanistan: January 2013, one of 39 photos. Here, an Afghan man stands outside a compound near the town of Hutal in Maywand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, January 20, 2013. (Reuters/Andrew Burton)
January 4, 2013
From Afghanistan: December 2012, one of 38 photos. Newly-graduated Afghan police officers attend their graduation ceremony at a National Police training center in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 27, 2012. Over 177 National police officers graduated after receiving 4 months of training in Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
December 3, 2012
From Afghanistan: November 2012, one of 37 photos. Traffic moves past the Abdul Rahman Khan Great Mosque, on November 18, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
November 2, 2012
From Afghanistan: October 2012, one of 40 photos. A soldier from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (The Vikings) stands to attention as his regiment receives their Afghanistan Operational Service Medal at Picton Barracks in Bulford, England, on November 1, 2012. The parade was the first in a series of events marking the end of their successful six-month deployment to Afghanistan as part of Task Force Helmand. The parade comes during the same week that two more British soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint in Afghanistan by a man wearing a local police uniform. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
September 28, 2012
From Afghanistan, September 2012: The End of the Surge, one of 42 photos. Four MV-22 Ospreys with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 follow a KC-130J with Detachment A, Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352, from Helmand province, Afghanistan, to the USS Iwo Jima in the Arabian Sea, on September 6, 2012. (USMC/Sgt. John Jackson)
September 4, 2012
From Afghanistan, August 2012: Return of the Fallen, one of 41 photos. The transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley is moved by a U.S. Marine carry team during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Dover Delaware, on August 13, 2012. Lance Cpl. Buckley who was from Oceanside, New York, was killed on August 10th while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
August 2, 2012
From Afghanistan, July 2012: Faces of Hope, one of 28 photos. A young girl pictured in a classroom in Herat, Afghanistan, in June of 2010. If there ever was a face of hope for the future, the new educated generation of young girls. They comprehend the chance they have been given more than we can ever imagine, they know it was a chance denied their mother’s. (© Martin Middlebrook)
July 3, 2012
From Afghanistan: June 2012, one of 41 photos. Here, a displaced Afghan boy from Helmand province peeks from a window at a camp for the displaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 20, 2012. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates the number of internally displaced Afghans at nearly 500,000. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
June 1, 2012
From Afghanistan: May 2012, one of 42 photos. Dust lights up the rotors of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as paratroopers with 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment load for an air assault mission near Combat Outpost Ab Band in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2012. Small sand particles striking titanium/nickel abrasion strips on the rotors causes a visible corona at night. In 2009, photographer Michael Yon dubbed this phenomenon the “Kopp-Etchells effect”, to honor Cpl. Benjamin Kopp, and Cpl. Joseph Etchells, recently fallen American and British soldiers. (U.S. Army/Sgt. Mike MacLeod)
May 1, 2012
From Afghanistan: April 2012, one of 41 photos. U.S. soldier Nicholas Dickhut from 5-20 infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne points his rifle at a doorway after coming under fire by the Taliban while on patrol in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, on April 26, 2012. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)
April 2, 2012
From Afghanistan: March 2012, one of 41 photos. A local Afghan elder watches soldiers from the Afghan Uniformed Police conduct a traffic checkpoint with U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, Task Force Blackhawk, in a desolate valley near Combat Outpost Yosef Khel, on March 9, 2012. (US Army/Spc. Ken Scar)
February 3, 2012
From Afghanistan: January 2012, one of 42 photos, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan. Here, the men of 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, during an operation near the end of their third deployment in three years in Afghanistan. They were securing route 611, which runs Kajaki Sofla, an area that had long been a safe haven for insurgent sub-commanders and for arms and drug trafficking. (Cpl. James Clark/USMC)
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