Amazing Pictures from Afghanistan
A dust devil whirls past as a soldier from the 1st Company, 4th Rapid Brigade of ISAF Czech contingent based in Tabor, Czech Republic, proceeds to check the targets after completing a shooting exercise at the range in Camp Altimur in Logar province, some 140 km (87 miles) southeast of the capital Kabul, September 25, 2009.
Members of the security detail for Karl Eikenberry, US Ambassador to Afghanistan, stand in front of a U.S. army Chinook helicopter as it lands near a newly constructed bridge south of Tarin Kot, in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan July 9, 2009.
Khadija, 40, sits in her cave early in the morning in Bamiyan on November 10, 2009. The cave dwellers here are all Hazara, who are religiously and ethnically distinct and survivors of intense persecution by the Taliban. Bamiyan, some 200 km (124 miles) northwest of Kabul, stands in a deep green and lush valley stretching 100 km through central Afghanistan, on the former Silk Road that once linked China with Central Asia and beyond. The town was home to two nearly 2,000-year-old Buddha statues before they were destroyed by the Taliban, months before their regime was toppled in a US-led invasion in late 2001.
A man waits to watch Bollywood film
An Afghan girl crosses a cemetery on the outskirts of Kabul, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
A military helicopter takes off from the military airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Clinton arrived to attend the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai.
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Afghanistan is great country but west countries prevent their development to become rich countries. I hate US goverment because they do occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why US military not leave afghanistan and iraq. Let Afghanistan and iraq alone !!!
Afghanistan is now know as a war zone. It is no doubt that the pictures really emphasis the terror that it gives to the people. What should be the best solution to get Afghanistan back, a place that was before a better place to live on.
I like the eyes in the first picture, great color!
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Its an award winning photograph taken by Steve McCurry in Afghanistan for National Geographic.
Nice pictures…
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