Oct. 15, 2001 — Abdul Rashid, center, with granddaughter Lina and son Farooq, had to sell his home in Kabul to pay the fare to get out of Taliban territory in an overloaded pickup.
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Oct. 17, 2001 — A young soldier with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance force attends a training meeting in the hills outside Jabal os Saraj, his weapon close at hand.
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Oct. 20, 2001 — Anti-Taliban Northern Alliance fighters gather for a meeting on battle strategy on the Shomali plain north of Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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Oct. 22, 2001 — Merza Khan, left, eats dinner with his anti-Taliban comrades at a front-line post north of Kabul. He lost a leg fighting the Soviets in 1989.
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Oct. 30, 2001 — A volunteer fighter stands guard at a mosque where several hundred other fighters were staying in the small village of Erab, Pakistan.
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Oct. 31, 2001 — Billows of smoke and dust rise after a B-52 Stratofortress dropped bombs on Taliban forces along the front lines north of Kabul.
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Nov. 2, 2001 — In Quetta, Pakistan, a boy walks by a life-size effigy of then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that was torn apart during a rally against the U.S.-led assault on the Taliban in nearby Afghanistan.
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Nov. 2, 2001 — Northern Alliance forces return to their barracks after exercises north of Kabul.
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Nov. 4, 2001 — Northern Alliance forces pray at sunset on the front line.
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Nov. 10, 2001 — A boy keeps pace with a group of Northern Alliance tanks headed south toward Taliban strongholds.
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Nov. 10, 2001 — A boy covers his face against the smell of bodies that lie on the sidewalk in Kabul after an American bomb hit a vehicle carrying Taliban fighters.
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Nov. 10, 2001 — Residents of Kabul celebrate Northern Alliance troops' entrance into the city by showering them with money.
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Nov. 13, 2001 — A Northern Alliance soldier waves a pistol in triumph as residents of Kabul line up to greet soldiers. The troops' arrival signaled the departure of Taliban forces from the Afghan capital.
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Nov. 16, 2001 — Two boys look through the holes in the thick glass that used to protect a security guard station at the former Russian Embassy compound in Kabul.
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Dec. 16, 2001 — A young Afghan swings with his friends in a village near Kabul during festivities marking the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
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Dec. 19, 2001 — Marine Lt. Ronald Reed of Virginia waits inside his fighting position on the perimeter of the bombed-out airport in Kandahar.
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Dec. 21, 2001 — Gunnery Sgt. Vincent Owsley holds an artillery shell as the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit prepares to blow up weapons found near Kandahar airport.
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Dec. 27, 2001 — Women waiting in line to receive food in Kabul remain as covered up as when the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime controlled the city.
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Jan. 17, 2002 — Abdul Qudus, 55, at the once-thriving Jangalak industrial complex in Afghanistan.
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Jan. 28, 2002 — A girl in a refugee camp shields her face from photographers.
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Oct. 22, 2002 — These amputees are patients receiving prothesis and rehabilitation at the Red Cross clinic in Kabul.
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Oct. 24, 2001 — Issa, 7, finds a syringe while sorting garbage at a recycle depot in Quetta, Pakistan. Any form of plastic is among the items the Afghan refugee can sell. Other valuable finds are animal bones, glass, metal, and paper.
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Nov. 9, 2002 — Flaming debris bursts skyward after the demolition of 90 Russian rockets found in Afghanistan.
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Nov. 19, 2002 — U.S. Staff Sgt. Dan pats down an Afghan man while Master Sgt. Frank stands guard at a nighttime checkpoint between Herat and Chaghcharan, Afghanistan. Dan and Frank are part of a 10-man team from the Army's 20th Special Forces group.
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March 4, 2005 — Two men have their dog lie quietly during other dogs' fights at a dirt lot on the edge of Kabul. The canine's neck is decorated with bells and colored balls. Some owners hope to win a jackpot bet, others take part for the pleasure of the blood sport.
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June 17, 2008 — U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Shaun Miller makes his way through an opium poppy field in the southern province of Helmand. His work includes assessing war damage to farmers' property and arranging compensation.
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June 10, 2009 — Hussein, left, gets help shooting heroin from fellow addict Anwar at an abandoned building in Kabul, Afghanistan. With them is Jaffer, who joined a rehab program a week later.
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June 23, 2009 — In the concrete basin of a dry fountain in Kabul, Australian Sharna Nolan, left, holds the hand of a girl during one of the skateboarding sessions wildly popular with children in the Afghan capital.
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June 20, 2009 — Life for the women of Afghanistan has improved since 2001, but many problems still remain. Few women remain on the streets after dark.
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July 28, 2009 — Hunger and poverty remain a critical issue for many Afghan residents, some like this woman and her children who recently returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan where they were refugees.
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Aug. 5, 2009 — Nayda, 23, asks for more children at a Kabul shrine where one day a week is set aside for women . Ancient customs persist, consigning women to roles as wives and mothers, attitudes abetted by poverty, illiteracy and insecurity.
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May 21, 2010 — An Afghan national police member smokes a cigarette before the start of the May 22 operation in western Kandahar's District 8. U.S. commanders say the Taliban exercises more autonomy in the district than anywhere in the city.
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June 2, 2010 — Spec. Andrew Kimbell, 25, of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, center, is welcomed back to Afghanistan after a 15-day R&R leave with a cloud of dust from a Chinook helicopter that had just dropped him off at Forward Operating Base Jalawar. Kimbell spent his leave in Spencer, Iowa where he grew up. Flanking him are PFC Ben Hoffmeister and Sgt. Benjamin Amato, who came to pick him up from the landing zone. The 82 Airborne Division is fanned out in Arghandab, a region in Kandahar plagued by Taliban resistance.
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June 4, 2010 — Pfc. Preston Young immediately alerts the command post of a blast that hit his patrol as they walked down a dirt road that connects farmland in a rural area. Two soldiers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division were thrown to the ground in the incident, but they were not seriously injured.
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June 5, 2010 — Staff Sgt. Christopher Nealis of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, yells for a soldier before heading out on patrol from their combat outpost in Kuhat, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times
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