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Topic: Afghanistan (page 39)

In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marine Lt. Jake Godby pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

Michael Winship

A U.S. soldier stands guard near the site of a suicide attack in Mehterlam, the capital of Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives as Afghanistan's deputy chief of intelligence visited a mosque east of Kabul on Wednesday, killing the Afghan official and 22 others. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

A security official walks near a burning fuel tanker, which has been standing for more than a day in gridlock along the Chaman Pakistan-Afghanistan border August 30, 2009.

Bill Moyers on health care, Democrats, and war

Glenn Greenwald

General Stanley McChrystal is the new head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. He is taking a new approach to fighting the war.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, after meetings with Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Matthias Gebauer

An Afghan woman voter shows her finger to a friend after casting her ballot at a polling station in a school in Kabul, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.

American support for the Afghan war collapses

Gregor Peter Schmitz, Gabor Steingart

Following Memorial Day this year, mementos left on or near the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery were left out in the elements and then thrown in the dumpster.

Afghan protesters gather around a coffin of a man they claim was killed by foreign forces in Ningarhar province May 10, 2008. At least two people were killed and seven wounded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against civilian deaths at the hands of foreign troops, witnesses said.

A souvenir shop-owner displays a recently-made metal plaque for sale to tourists reading "Obama, New Tutankhamun of the World", in the Khan el-Khalili market area of Cairo, Egypt Thursday, May 28, 2009, ahead of President Barack Obama's planned June 4 speech in Cairo on U.S. relations with the Muslim world. The sign refers to Tutankhamun who was one of the last Pharaohs of Egypt's 18th Dynasty and ruled during a crucial, turmoil-filled period in Egyptian history. Hieroglyphics at base of plaque were claimed by the vendor to spell the name "Obama".

An empty classroom at the girls' school in Aqtash. Once the threats started coming, parents stopped sending their girls to school.

The Taliban gains control of Afghan schools

Matthias Gebauer, Shoib Najafizada

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