An Afghan watches U.S. soldiers carry his 12-year-old niece, who was wounded by a stray bullet, to a medevac helicopter on Sept. 20, 2010, near Marja, Afghanistan.
An Afghan boy walks past U.S. and Afghan soldiers in the village of Saidon Kalacheh in the Arghandab Valley on Sept. 11.
Afghan women wait in line at a polling station in Kabul on Sept. 18.
A U.S. Marine waits to search vehicles for a missing U.S. Navy sailor at a checkpoint on the road from Kabul to Bagram on July 28 in Bagram.
A U.S. Army soldier returns fire at Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley during a Taliban attack on Sept.11.
A burqa-clad woman walks with a child in the old town area of Kabul on June 19.
Afghans gather at the site of a bomb planted on a motorcycle in front of a government office in Kandahar on Sept. 1.
An Afghan elder and a boy listen to U.S. Army soldiers on patrol in the village of Saidon Kalacheh in the Arghandab Valley on Sept. 11.
Afghan civilians and a U.S. Army paratrooper stand on a busy market street in Herat on June 26.
Afghan villagers drive past a U.S. Army soldier on patrol in their village in Dand district of Kandahar province on July 19.
An Afghan boy rides past U.S. Marines searching vehicles for a missing U.S. Navy sailor at a checkpoint on the Kabul-Bagram road on July 28.
Village elders sit during a shura meeting with local Afghan government officials and U.S. Army officers on June 29.
A U.S. Army medic inspects an Afghan villager's knee during a patrol in Dand district of Kandahar Province on July 21.
U.S. Marines help a father carry his young daughter, struck by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade fired at Marines patrolling in her village, to a medevac helicopter on Sept. 18.
Village elders wait for a shura meeting with local Afghan government officials and U.S. Army officers in Bala Murghab on June 29.
An Afghan girl carrying water from the river walks past U.S. Army soldiers in the village of Saidon Kalacheh in the Arghandab Valley on Sept. 11.
A member of a U.S. Army Provincial Reconstruction Team walks down a street in Orgune on Jan. 20.
