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Rahim Faiez

Afghan army trains women for special forces

Rahim Faiez

Afghan president: US violating detainee pact

Rahim Faiez

Afghan National Army soldiers pray inside their sleeping quarters at their barracks in Kunduz, northen Afghanistan, Sunday,Sept. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Attack on Kabul CIA office kills 1 American

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez

Members of U.S. Marine Scout-Sniper team look for a Taliban position in a nearby tree-line, during an exchange of fire with Taliban militants, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

Taliban attack U.S. Embassy, other Kabul buildings

Rahim Faiez, Amir Shah

Afghans carrying anti Pakistan slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated 36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks. Pakistan's army has said no rounds were intentionally fired but that some may have accidentally fallen in Afghanistan in fighting with militants carrying out cross-border attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Border strife in Afghanistan shows wider tensions

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore

An injured Afghan man, a victim of a blast lies in a hospital bed in Kunduz city in the northern province of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 25, 2011. A bicycle rigged with explosives ripped through a bazaar in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer. At least 24 people were wounded in the attack, according to an Interior Ministry statement. (AP Photo/Balal) (AP)

Car bomber kills 35 at Afghan clinic

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore

An Afghan policemen stands guard as an aerial view of Kabul city is seen from atop a hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi) (AP)

NATO troops among those killed in Afghan attack

Rahim Faiez, Jon Gambrell

An Afghan policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, May 22, 2011. In Kandahar, two police officers suffered injuries Sunday when a motorcycle laden with explosives detonated as they tried to disarm it, the ministry said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

Taliban denies leader has been killed in Pakistan

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez

Afghani people hold the lifeless body of one of the four Afghans, killed during a NATO raid in Taloqan, Takhar province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. More than 1,000 protesters poured into a northern Afghan city Wednesday, shouting "Death to America!" and calling for justice as they clashed with security forces following an overnight NATO raid they claim killed four civilians. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard) (AP)

Afghan rally over NATO raid turns violent, 12 die

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez

Afghan police men and officials stand close to a damaged police vehicle at the scene of a suicide car bomb explosion on the out skirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, April 14, 2011. A suicide car bomber detonated a truck of explosives covered in wood at a government compound in Musayi district, about 40 miles south of the Afghan capital, according Daud Amin, deputy police chief in Kabul. Six members of the Afghan national security forces were injured, he said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Suicide bomber kills nine soldiers at Afghan base

Rahim Faiez

Afghan protestors beat a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP)

Quran protests spread to turbulent Afghan east

Rahim Faiez, Rahmat Gul

Death tolls mount in Afghanistan

Rahim Faiez

Governor among 15 killed in Afghan mosque blast

Rahim Faiez

NATO airstrike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops

Rahim Faiez

U.S. finds $1 trillion in mineral riches in Afghanistan

Rahim Faiez

Karzai wins amid cries of fraud

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez