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Global News Portfolio: Afghanistan: The Longest War

  • Rows of Afghan dignitaries, military, police and mourners pay last respects to six parliamentarians including opposition leader Mustafa Kazimi, during a state funeral near the Darulaman Palace, in background, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday November 8, 2007. The lawmakers and six of their bodyguards, who were also killed in the attack, were buried together in a place of honor near the location of a planned new parliament building. Thousands attended the official ceremony during the second of three national days of mourning for the 52 killed in a suicide attack in Baghlan province on Tuesday, November 6, 2007.
  • Burhan Amin, 26, shines a light from the back of a cigarette lighter that projects the image of Osama bin Laden that he purchased from a shop in the village of Khenj, Afghanistan on Friday, October 26, 2007. Ten years after the September 11th attack on the United States bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.
  • American soldiers question a man who walked up on the American patrol. The American patrol received sniper fire all day causing them to look for scouts who might be telling the Taliban of their location during the patrol. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company, operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people of interest and to disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province.
  • Marines of the first platoon of Lima company of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, shouts out the location of Taliban shooting at his fire team in northern Marjah. The Marines took cover in canals and returned fire. The Taliban fled on motorbikes 15 minutes after shooting at the Marines. Four months after a major offensive to secure Marjah, the 3rd battalion, 6th Marines continue to face resistance as they attempt to win over the population in the rural area, which is a major poppy production center.
  • The body of Captain Petre Tiberius is unloaded from a helicopter by fellow Romanian soldiers and American medical personnel at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on April 3, 2009. The defense ministry in Bucharest, Romania announced Captain Petre Tiberius was killed in crossfire while leading a mission on Friday to support ISAF forces who had come under attack. Tiberius was transported by helicopter to a forward surgical hospital but died in transit. Romania has lost 10 soldiers in Afghanistan.
  • After receiving a Purple Heart from Major General McCarthy a wounded soldier recounts the attack that resulted in his wounds in Afghanistan at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The quick medical transportation system is efficient at treating physical wounds but the mental trauma suffered will take longer to treat.
  • A young woman waits for an appointment at the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 20, 2010. As well as offering some of the most advanced technology, the hospital offers advanced care for young women in Kabul.
  • Patients practice walking with prosthetics received from the Red Cross along with other victims of mine blasts at the ICRC rehabilitation clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 27, 2010. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) manages six physical rehabilitation centers across Afghanistan and maintains a workshop manufacturing prosthetic/orthotic limbs for war victims and those with other disabilities. The doors to the clinic are open to all Afghans who are wounded for any reason.
  • An MQ-9 Reaper stands ready and fully armed on the flight line of Kandahar Air Field with four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, one GBU-12 Paveway II, and one GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack munitions mounted on its wings. The United States Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron launches the MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aircraft or drone, from Kandahar Air Field. The U.S. Air Force currently fields 10 of the $13 million aircraft which can be armed with a variety of guided bombs. The Reaper is controlled by a flight team in Kandahar for take-off and landings but is controlled for most of its 12 to 13 hour missions from a base in Nevada operated by the 42nd Attack Squadron.
  • Pilots with the United States Air Force's 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron prepare to launch a MQ-1 Predator from the Kandahar Air Field from a trailer equipped with a full array of piloting computers and readouts on the flight line. The U.S. Air Force currently fields 130 of the $3 million aircraft which can be armed with two laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
  • A DynCorp employee, center, monitors an Afghan police rifle course at a military range east of Kabul on Sunday October 21, 2007. The range is part of a Tactical Training Program (TTP) that is a follow-up and refresher to the first 8-week training the police received. The TTP gives Afghan police training in weapons, tactical movement as a team and classroom learning including criminal investigation training. Most of the classes are run by Afghan police teachers with mentoring and assistance by DynCorp employees.
  • American soldiers stagger into Combat Outpost Lakhokhel after a long day of battling the Taliban during a search of several compounds near the village of Singesar. The Americans suffered no casualties from enemy fire but did have several soldiers suffer heat exhaustion during a firefight. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people and disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province.
  • Sergeant Bryan Hulit, right, reads while fellow soldiers get some sleep on an Afghan bed they found in the compound they took over during their clearing operations in the village of Talukan. The 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, of the 101st Airborne Division started to clear the roads and houses of the village of Talukan in Pajwai district of Kandahar. The soldiers have found as many as 9 Improvised Explosive Devices all around the main market and roads leading into the village.
  • KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN. {quote}Kill Team{quote} leader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs walks through a poppy field during a patrol to investigate one of the killings of an Afgha civilian he was connected to.
  • An American attack helicopter fires a missile at a Taliban position. The Taliban fired at the helicopter, and soldiers on the ground took sniper fire during their search. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people and disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province.
  • American soldiers watches as smokes rises from a rocket attack by American helicopters on a Taliban position. The patrol was harassed by a sniper and automatic weapons fire most of the morning. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, A Company operating out of Combat Outpost Lakhokhel in the Zhair district of Kandahar province searched several compounds and patrolled the village of Singesar and the surrounding area to talk to people and disrupt the Taliban operations closer to the main highway from Kandahar to Helmand province. Singesar is a Taliban stronghold and the traditional homeland of Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
  • The Marines have been unable to get control of the Marjah District in Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency is thriving with support from Pakistan and revenues from opium trade in the region.
  • American soldiers watches as a villager who lost his house after the Americans dropped bombs on it the night before sheds tears. The villager alerted the Americans to the fact that the Taliban where holed up in his home. The Americans then bombed the home the following night. The man now was asking for compensation as everything he owned was destroyed in the attack. He now lives outside of town in a tent and was asking for food and clothing for this children.
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