Afghanistan Wartime Architecture June 2010
Part 1
 

An Afghan policeman stands guard as a NATO vehicle burns following a suicide attack which hit a military convoy in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 6, 2010. AP

A NATO military vehicle burns after a suicide attack on a military convoy in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 6, 2010. AP

A soldier in the 10th Mountain Division stands in a field base as a helicopter flies by overhead on June 6, 2010 in Belanday, south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division have fanned out in the vast hinterlands south of Kandahar, part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at protecting Afghan civilians and legitimizing the government of Afghanistan in the minds of the rural local populace. Getty

US soldiers of the 97th MP battalion walk down a street conducting a foot patrol in Kandahar city on June 6, 2010. The US and NATO are boosting to 150,000 the number of foreign troops in Afghanistan by August 2010 as they build up operations to beat back the Taliban from around their spiritual home of Kandahar in the south. Getty

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Afghan children peer from a house as Canadian soldiers with 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, patrol to find Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs in the Panjwayi district, south west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 6, 2010. AP

A Pashtun farmer and his son stand on their farm fields June 3, 2010 in Walakhan, a village south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Tiny Walakhan, which has perhaps 300 ethnic Pashtuns, is typical of many agrarian hamlets in the Pashtun belt in southern Afghanistan, where traditional farmers grow crops and raise families in ways they have for centuries. Walakhan and surrounding Dand province lie on crucial access routes to nearby Kandahar, and American soliders have occupied a forward operating base nearby to keep order in the restive region ahead of a push to place Kandahar under full Afghan government control. Getty

Children watch as a Canadian soldier of Task Force Kandahar takes part in a foot patrol in Kandahar city on June 6, 2010. The US and NATO are boosting to 150,000 the number of foreign troops in Afghanistan by August 2010 as they build up operations to beat back the Taliban from around their spiritual home of Kandahar in the south. Getty

June 03. A solider carries food into a tent used as a meal station next to a stack of water bottles at an Army outpost in the village of Balanday, in Dand District, Afghanistan. Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division have fanned out in the vast area south of Kandahar, part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at protecting Afghan civilians and legitimizing the government of Afghanistan in the minds of the rural local populace. Getty

JUNE 03: The sun rises behind a guard tower at an Army outpost in the village of Balanday, in Dand District, Afghanistan. Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division have fanned out in the vast area south of Kandahar, part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at protecting Afghan civilians and legitimizing the government of Afghanistan in the minds of the rural local populace. Getty

An aerial view of southern Kandahar is seen from the gun turret of a transport helicopter June 2, 2010 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Soldiers of the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division have fanned out in the vast hinterlands south of Kandahar, part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at protecting Afghan civilians and legitimizing the government of Afghanistan in the minds of the rural local populace. Getty

Afghan children walk past German soldiers on June 3, 2010 in Shir Khan, Afghanistan. Germany has more than 4,500 military forces in Afghanistan as part of the US-led International Security Assistance Force. Amid growing public resentment towards the prolonged mission in Afghanistan, the German parliament, the Bundestag, voted in February for extension of Germany's military mission in Afghanistan and the deployment of additional 859 troops. Getty

Women watch cleanup operations conducted by police after two alleged Taliban militants were killed in a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a national peace conference as it opened Wednesday in the Afghan capital, sparking gunbattles outside the venue. AP

Afghans watch as President Hamid Karzai delivers an opening speech to delegates of the peace jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban militants launched a suicide attack on Afghanistan's national peace conference Wednesday as President Karzai interrupted his opening remarks to reassure nervous delegates hearing the thump of rockets and rattle of gunfire outside. AP

Police officers wait outside the scene of a gunbattle after killing two alleged Taliban militants who were hiding in a building under construction, background, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a national peace conference as it opened Wednesday in the Afghan capital, sparking gunbattles outside the venue. AP

A woman peers through a window to view the aftermath following a gunbattle between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban militants launched a suicide attack on Afghanistan's national peace conference Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai interrupted his opening remarks to reassure nervous delegates hearing the thump of rockets and rattle of gunfire outside. AP

Local residents gather to see the bodies of Taliban militants killed in a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a national peace conference as it opened Wednesday in the Afghan capital, sparking gunbattles outside the venue. AP

Local resident crowd outside a building under construction where alleged Taliban militants were hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a national peace conference as it opened Wednesday in the Afghan capital, sparking gunbattles outside the venue. AP

Delegates listen to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's opening address of the peace jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Security forces battled insurgents including at least one suicide bomber outside the national peace conference just as Karzai opened the three-day meeting Wednesday in the Afghan capital. AP

A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks in a cemetery in Kabul on June 1, 2010. President Hamid Karzai will on June 2 gather up to 1,600 leaders from across Afghanistan, seeking a national consensus on how to end nearly nine years of war and ultimately allow US-led troops to withdraw. The three-day 'peace jirga' in a huge air-conditioned tent will be the third such conference uniting Afghanistan's complex mix of ethnic, tribal, religious, geographic and gender interests since the Taliban were toppled in 2001. Getty

Afghan policemen stand guard at a check point of the Peace Jirga tent, near a billboard advertising the three-day conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. President Hamid Karzai is rolling out his program to lure Taliban and other insurgent fighters off the battlefield, addressing the conference starting Wednesday aimed at building a national consensus on how to end the nearly nine-year war. AP

Burqa-clad Afghan women with their children walk in Kabul on June 1, 2010. President Hamid Karzai will on June 2 gather up to 1,600 leaders from across Afghanistan, seeking a national consensus on how to end nearly nine years of war and ultimately allow US-led troops to withdraw. The three-day 'peace jirga' in a huge air-conditioned tent will be the third such conference uniting Afghanistan's complex mix of ethnic, tribal, religious, geographic and gender interests since the Taliban were toppled in 2001. Getty