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Mujahedeen fighters loyal to Ahmed Shah Massoud defend a hilltop against Taliban advances in Ibar, Takhar province, Afghanistan.
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A young girl is seen soon after dawn in the village of Ghulam Ali, Parwan province, Afghanistan. Fighting between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban, along with massive U.S. airstrikes, made the plain a critically dangerous place to live.
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Horsemen ride through the village of Hisarak, Balkh province, Afghanistan.
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A Hazara victim of the war walks near the rockface that once housed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, Bamiyan province, Afghanistan. The Hazara, as Shiite Muslims, suffered particular tyranny under the Taliban.
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A mother and daughter return home from work in the fields in Ishkashem, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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Children cool down after a day's work in the fields in Shamali Plain, Parwan province, Afghanistan. The Shamali Plain has traditionally supported a multitude of vines and crops.
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A young boy works in the poppy fields in Nangrahar province, Afghanistan.
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People watch a bird fight on Friday morning behind a teahouse in the Old City of Kabul, Afghanistan. The birds are small quail, called Bodahna.
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Eight-year-old camel herder Ajnabi Gul, "Strange Flower", weathers the harsh elements of wind and sun in his work on the plains outside Herat, Herat province, Afghanistan.
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Ahmad Shah Massoud visits his front lines in Dasht-e-Qala, Takhar province, Afghanistan.
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Osama bin Laden is televised in the house of the village commander in Ghulam Ali, Parwan province, Afghanistan.
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A women begs in Jade Maiwand, Kabul, Afghanistan. Widowed by war and unable to work under the laws of the recently arrived Taliban, women are forced to beg.
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An executed Talib fighter is seen on the Old Road to Kabul at sunrise on the morning the Taliban fled Kabul, Afghanistan.
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An anxious father holds his daughter, weak from malaria, while waiting for treatment at a Swedish Committee clinic in Dasht-e-Qala, Takhar province, Afghanistan.
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A birdman releases his pigeons for Kaftar Bazi in Charikar, Parwan province, Afghanistan.
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An Uzbek farmer relaxes in the fields at the end of a day's harvest in Taloqan, Takhar province, Afghanistan.
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A celebrant is seen at a Sufi ceremony that has lasted throughout the night in the Old City of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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The poppy harvest is seen in Shinwar, Nangrahar province, Afghanistan.
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Summer respite in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
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A Talib threatens stall holders with a rubber whip as prayer time approaches on Shor Bazaar in the Old City of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A graduate demonstrates his skills at the headquarters of the Counternarcotics Police of Afghanistan, CNPA, where recruits are trained by Blackwater, a U.S. global security company, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A replica of the Eiffel Tower advertises a nearby wedding hall, the Sham-e-Paris, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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An election worker checks the identity of a voter against her voting card during the presidential elections in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A man casts his vote at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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President Hamid Karzai is seen in his office in the Arg Palace, protected by an American bodyguard, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Afghan horseman and spectators attend a Buzkashi event north of Kabul in Gulbahar, Kapisa province, Afghanistan.
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Fishermen walk home with the rubber tubes they use to fish on the river near Jalalabad, Nangrahar province, Afghanistan.
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U.S. troops from the 82nd Airborne search for arms caches and remnants of the Taliban during a mission in the Kohe Safi Mountains, Afghanistan.
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A miner works in a coal mine in Gazastan, Takhar province, Afghanistan.
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A woman in a burqa walks with her child in the desert, Khwaja Bahauddin, Takhar province, Afghanistan.
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