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Portraits from Afghanistan (4)

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Portraits from Afghanistan (4)

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  1. oct. 26, 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan. – AP photos

  2. An Afghan street barber shaves the head of a customer in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Dec. 1, 2011. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  3. An Afghan Koochi (or nomad) checks meat hung to dry in the outskirts of Mazar-i Sharif, capital of Balkh province, Dec. 4, 2011. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  4. An Afghan woman, holding her baby, walks through a busy street in Kabul, Dec. 5, 2011. A major international conference on December 5 sought ways forward for Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014. The boycott of two crucial players,Pakistan and the Taliban, dampened hopes of success. The one-day gathering brought around 100 national delegations and aid organizations to the former German capital Bonn. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

  5. Afghan children run holding jerrycans to collect water or fuel, in Kabul, Nov. 30, 2011. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

  6. An Afghan Koochi (nomad) boy at a mud hut in the outskirts of Mazar-i Sharif, capital of Balkh province, Dec. 4, 2011. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  7. Afghan doctor Nafisa, examines a newborn in an incubator at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul. Afghans are living longer, fewer infants are dying and more women are surviving childbirth because health care has dramatically improved around the country in the past decade, according to a national survey. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

  8. Afghan doctors register newborns babies at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 29, 2011. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

  9. Afghan doctors register newborns babies at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 29, 2011. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

  10. Newborn twins rest in an incubator at the Malalai Maternity Hospital in Kabul, Nov. 29, 2011. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

  11. Drivers, some who carried fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, sleep on top of their trucks at a fuel terminal in Karachi Nov. 26, 2011. (Athar Hussain/Reuters

  12. An Afghan laborer works in a firewood yard at a market in Mazar-i Sharif, north of Afghanistan Nov. 28, 2011. Trying to recover from 30 years of conflict that destroyed institutions and infrastructure, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Polls show that at a local level, Afghans are less concerned about poor security than they are about jobs, electricity and roads. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  13. An Afghan woman begs next to Hazrat-e Ali shrine in Mazar-i Sharif on Nov. 26, 2011. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor with one of the lowest standards of living in the world. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  14. Men use a trolley to push their family members towards the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing in Torkham, Nov. 28, 2011. (Khuram Parvez/Reuters)

  15. Internally displaced Afghan refugee girls and boys look out from a window of a home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov, 28, 2011. (Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press)

  16. A U.S. Army soldier exchanges a high five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2011. (Umit Bektas/Reuters

  17. An Afghan women and a young girl beg on a street in Mazar-i Sharif, Nov. 13, 2011. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  18. An Afghan musician plays a traditional stringed instrument southwest of Kabul, Nov. 12, 2011. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)

  19. Afghan laborers work at a brick factory southwest of Kabul, Nov. 12, 2011. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images) #

  20. Afghan children enjoy a swing ride set up in a cemetery on the second day of the Eid al-Adha in Kabul, Nov. 7, 2011. The Eid al-Adha is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

  21. An Afghan man feeds pigeons outside Shah-e-Dushamshera mosque on the first day of Eid-al-Adha prayers, in Kabul, Nov. 6, 2011. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

  22. Cpl. James Hernandez, a combat engineer with Alpha Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, and a native of Goodyear, Arizona, uses an electric saw to dismantle a HESCO barrier at Firebase Saenz, in Helmand province, on December 13, 2011. FB Saenz is the first of several patrol bases being demilitarized by the Marines of 9th ESB throughout the month of December. (USMC/Cpl. Bryan Nygaard)

  23. Grover, a character from "Sesame Street" walks with Afghans at the French Culture Center in Kabul, on November 30, 2011. Children in Afghanistan are now able to start their education as millions of preschoolers around in the world have: by watching "Sesame Street" on TV. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)

  24. Afghan Elvis, singer Farhad Darya, a United Nations goodwill ambassador performs during a concert for Afghan girls and women at Amani high school in Kabul on November 24, 2011. Dubbed the Afghan Elvis, Darya may be the only man in his country who can reduce an audience of headscarf-clad women to a screaming, waving, whistling throng. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)

  25. Young Afghan girls and women enjoy a concert by Afghan Elvis, singer Farhad Darya, at Amani high school in Kabul, on November 24, 2011. In a country where women still have limited rights and music was banned under the Taliban until ten years ago, Darya is an icon for millions and his popularity was clear at a rare, top security, female-only show in Kabul. The show was shrouded in secrecy due to fears it could be targeted by the Taliban. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)

  26. Afghan child bride Sahar Gul, 15, looks at Afghan Minister of Women's Affairs Husn Banu Ghazanfar (right) as she recovers at a hospital in Kabul, on December 31, 2011. Afghan police rescued the teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said on December 27. Sahar Gul was found in the basement of her husband's house in northeastern Baghlan province late on December 26, 2011, after her parents reported her disappearance to the police. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

  27. A man feeds pigeons in front of the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, or Blue Mosque, in Mazar-e-Sharif on December 22, 2011. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

  28. A man sells street food to children in Kandahar city on December 18, 2011. (Jangir/AFP/Getty Images

  29. Afghanistan soccer players react after winning their semifinal soccer match against Nepal during the South Asian Football Federation competition in New Delhi on December 9, 2011. (Gurinder Osan/Associated Press)

  30. A miller pauses at his mill in Mazar-i Sharif on December 11, 2011. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images

  31. Men work to build a bridge funded by the North Afghanistan Stabilization Program funded by the German foreign ministry near Kunduz on December 11, 2011. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

  32. A man prays at a grave in a cemetery in Kabul on December 9, 2011. (Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press) #

  33. Twelve-year-old Tarana Akbari pauses during an interview with an AFP reporter after visiting her sister, who was wounded in a bomb attack against Shiite Muslims, in a hospital in Kabul on December 8, 2011. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)

  34. A police officer washes dishes at an observation post in the Sar Hawza district of Paktika province in this November 30 photograph released December 8, 2011. US forces achieved a rare concrete victory in the often undefined Afghan war when they seized this key mountain pass from the Taliban four months ago. But as American troops draw down in the war, it will fall on Afghan soldiers and police to hold this dirt road in eastern Afghanistan's Taba Kakar mountains. So far, the signs are not encouraging. (Heidi Vogt/Associated Press

  35. A German soldier of the ISAF gives a tennis ball to children during a patrol in the village of Isa Khel in the Chahar Dara district on December 16, 2011. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

  36. Kabul, Afghanistan — At a refugee camp, children peek through a gap in a makeshift wall of cloth. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ahmad Nazar / Associated Press

  37. An Afghan man protects his child from the cold on a road in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)

  38. Dmitry Solovyov / NBC News - The fight master at a dog fight outside of Kabul, Afghanistan during January 2012.

  39. Dmitry Solovyov / NBC News - Some of the dogs were decorated at a recent dog fight outside of Kabul, Afghanistan.

  40. Ahmad Masood / Reuters - An Afghan Shi'ite Muslim man takes a break as he and others flagellate themselves during a Muharram procession in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 3. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala.

  41. Afghan youth Haroon Naseri 20, is reflected on water, as he offers prayers on the outskirt of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. - Rahmat Gul - ASSOCIATED PRESS

  42. Internally displaced Afghan Amir Mohammad poses with his wife and children at a camp in Dihdadi district on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province on Jan. 8. Mazar-i-Sharif is the capital of Balkh province with existence of multi-ethnic groups such as Uzbeks, Turkmen, Tajiks and Hazaras. In literary Mazar-i-Sharif means ‘Respected Shrine’ but the city is known by tourists as city of the blue mosque which is located in the center of the city known as the Shrine of Hazrat Ali. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  43. afghan horsemen compete for the goat carcass during a game of Buzkashi in Herat on Jan. 6. The ancient game of Buzkashi is an Afghan national sport which is played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw a goat carcass into a scoring circle. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)

  44. An Afghan girl holds a doll in a displaced camp in Kabul on Jan. 25. Despite massive injections of foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor with some of the lowest living standards in the world. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)

  45. Afghans walk down a snow covered road after a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan. 23. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press

  46. A disabled internally displaced man sits on his firewood donated by Welt Hunger Hilfe "German Agro Action" , as he waits for transportation at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan. 23. Over 300 internally displaced families received the firewood. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

  47. A burqa clad Afghan woman sells socks on a street during a cold winter day in Kabul on Jan. 23. With a population of some 29 million, 23 percent of the total Afghan population live in urban areas. Afghanistan is the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images

  48. An Afghan boy enjoys the snowfalls in Kandahar on Jan. 24. Dozens more people have been injured or are trapped in their homes under up to 10 feet of snow in remote Badakhshan province, where main roads have been cut, making it difficult for rescue workers to reach affected villages. (Jangir/AFP/Getty Images)

  49. Models present Afghan dresses created by Razia's Ray Of Hope Foundation during a fashion show at "Le Jardin de Taimani" in Kabul on Jan. 27. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)

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